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Description: | Ts transcription (13pp) of a diary written during his service as a junior cavalry officer attached to 2nd Army HQ on the Western Front, 12 August - 16 December 1914, describing his embarkation for France, rumours of German war atrocities, attempts to evacuate French and Belgian civilians during the retreat from Mons, the general confusion in this early period of mobile warfare, casualties caused by German shelling, his billets and relations with the local people, his attempts to join the Royal Flying Corps, and his hospitalisation with a perforated lung; the transcript includes a letter written by his father on 19 December 1914, describing how he had to ‘pull strings' in order to visit Duncan in his French hospital and relates wartime incidents involving his son. Together with a ts transcription (2pp) of an account written by Duncan's brother-in-law, Major Everard Le Grice Whitting DSO MC, the Officer Commanding 23rd Mountain Battery RA at Gallipoli, describing the landings on the Peninsula on 25 April 1915 and the positioning of their guns.
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Catalogue date 2007-12-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | MacPherson Laurie, D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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