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Description: | Ts transcription of a diary (133pp) interspersed with photographs, letters to his fiancée, official documents and newspaper clippings from his service as a cornet player in a concert band, first with the 2/6th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment (171st Brigade, 57th Division) and later with the 248th Divisional Employment Company (under the 717th Labour Corps, 57th (West Lancashire) Division) on the Western Front, although he did not see actual front line service due to an unspecified medical condition; mentioning rehearsals, playing at church services, concerts given for the troops, shelling by the Germans, training and work as stretcher bearers, tedious labour in the camp (including bricklaying, carrying supplies, digging trenches and guard duty), and the horrible weather endured by the troops in the summer of 1917.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-10-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hulme, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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