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Description: | Two ms pocket diaries (74pp and 69pp) covering his service as a trooper in the Essex Yeomanry and then as Corporal with the Special (Gas) Brigade RE in France, April 1915 - April 1916, describing his cavalry training at Hounslow Barracks before transfer to the School of Engineering at Chatham, his arrival in Béthune, France and his duties in the trenches which involved controlling the release of poison gas, his billets in a village near Cambrin where he prepared for a second gas attack involving improved cylinders and equipment, his move to Armentieres where they spent three days in the trenches and sustained casualties from German shell fire, weather conditions which prevented the staging of a gas attack until January 1916 where he mentions a leaking cylinder resulting in the gassing of two of his own men, and occasional leisure activities including tobogganing.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Mitchell, L G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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