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Description: | A series of 4 ms pocket diaries covering his service as a regular soldier in the Queen Victoria's Own Miners and Sappers Regiment RE, the first diary (30pp) describing his period of service in the trenches around Armentieres and containing detailed descriptions of the effects of shelling on the trenches, August 1914 - June 1915; the second diary (12pp) begins after his return from leave when he found that his unit had moved to Mailly Maillet, and after his period of service expired he returned home to the United Kingdom, July - November 1915; the third and fourth diaries (22pp and 120pp) cover the period after his re-enlistment in April 1917, with one account covering April 1917 - March 1918 and describing his training and eventual transfer to India, and the other diary covering January - December 1918 and describing his work on repairing the Indian railway.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1977-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tomkins, T J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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