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Description: | Photocopy of an ms diary (39pp) and ts transcriptions (10pp), recording his service as a Gunner with the 99 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery, stationed on the Western Front near Arras, 17 May 1916 - 10 May 1917, describing his duties and the weaponry he used, his billets, the gunnery course he attended on 21 February 1917, the nature of the fighting going on around him and the number of casualties within his Battery, also conveying the strain of living under constant shell fire and aerial bombardment as well as hinting at the monotony of his existence in the trenches by growing increasingly disillusioned in tone.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2008-02-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Garfield, S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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