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Description: | Ms diary (35pp) kept during his service with the 7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (36th Brigade, 12th Division) in France, May 1915 - July 1916, containing brief but regular entries describing his duties and trench routine, the fighting and casualties sustained, preparations for the Battle of the Somme and his involvement in an attack on 7 July which led to his wounding and evacuation back to the United Kingdom. Also held with the diary is a Book of Common Prayer inscribed by a soldier of the 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders in February 1915.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2001-10-16 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Carr, W A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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