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Description: | Outstanding series of 28 ms diaries and 5 contemporary diary transcripts covering his service in the RAMC with No 1 Base Hospital in Ireland and France (August - September 1914); 15th Field Ambulance (September 1914); as Medical Officer to the 15th Brigade RFA (5th Division) principally at Festubert and Neuve Eglise (September 1914 - March 1915) and at Ypres (April - May 1915); No 3 Casualty Clearing Station at Bailleul (June 1915 - January 1916), Nordpelne (January 1916), St Ouen and Pouchevillers (March - December 1916) except when temporarily attached to the 8th Field Ambulance at Hooge (August 1915), No 2 CCS at Bailleul and No 10 CCS at Remy (February - March 1916); the 21st Field Ambulance at Mailly Maillet (January 1917) and briefly as Medical Officer to the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers (87th Brigade, 29th Division) and the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment (91st Brigade, 7th Division); as Medical Officer to the 20th Battalion Manchester Regiment (22nd Brigade, 7th Division) near Beaumont Hamel and Ecourt, Bullecourt and Polygon Wood (February - November 1917) and in Italy, principally on the River Piave (November 1917 - September 1918); and finally with the 22nd Field Ambulance also near the Piave; with very detailed descriptions of the organisation and personnel of the units with which he served, his medical work and references to conditions generally for both soldiers and civilians in Belgium and Italy, gas attacks, spy mania and the use of tanks (1916), the Battles of the Aisne (1914), Second Ypres (1915) and Third Ypres (1917), the Somme (1916) and the Austrian Offensive on the Asiago Plateau, and various more minor conflicts, raids and patrols. Together with a small number of related papers, presscuttings and photographs.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2002-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pritchard, N P | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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