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Description: | Photocopied ms diary (26pp) written whilst serving as a Sergeant in the 110th Battery 24th Brigade Royal Field Artillery (6th Division) on the Western Front, covering the period August 1914 – August 1915, including brief entries recording the preparations on the outbreak of war, the Battle of the Aisne (1914), the Christmas Truce (1914), the bombardments during the Second Battle of Ypres, the noise of the guns, the numbers of casualties on both sides, stories of enemy attacks on refugees, gas attacks, aerial bombardments, the use of liquid fire and the destruction of Ypres.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Holdsworth, E E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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