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Description: | Two ms diaries (97pp) of his service as a Private with the 1/1st South Nottinghamshire Hussars (2nd Mounted Division, re-designated 7th Mounted Brigade in January 1916), describing in the earlier diary, dated 2 March to 8 June 1917, his journey on a hospital ship from Salonika to England, illustrated with pencil drawings, poems and verses and then recording throughout the second diary, 1 January to 28 February 1918, his arrival in France on 13 December 1917 and the duties he carried out in the trenches after his transfer to an unknown Battalion of The (Queen's Own) Oxfordshire Hussars, the artillery fire and aerial combat he witnessed on the Western Front and also how to use an automatic light machine gun, growing increasingly more disillusioned in tone; together with various documents relating to his military service during the First World War as well as photographs of him in uniform.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-12-20 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sproul, R A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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