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Description: | Ms diary (90pp), with ts transcription, kept during his service with the RAMC (October 1915 – November 1918) and describing his guilt over leaving his wife and baby upon enlistment, a number of suicide attempts in the camp in Sheffield at which he is training, as well as two incidents of men reportedly going insane and attempting to escape from a local hospital, a description of Christmas dinner at the camp (December 1915), the journey to France (January 1916) and his work as a laboratory assistant at a military hospital near Etaples (April 1916), an argument between himself and a messmate which resulted in the messmate being publicly disciplined (May 1916), a brief note on the large number of casualties from the Battle of the Somme (July 1916) and his increasing frustration with his superior officers at the hospital, who he believed to be more concerned with military protocol than the treatment of patients, along with some brief notes regarding his application for a commission in the artillery, an air raid that resulted in the death of a number of Americans stationed near the hospital (September 1918), and his demotion to private in the final weeks of the war (November 1918).
Cataloguer BEK | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Reynolds, Thomas Clay | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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