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Description: | 3 ms pocket diaries kept while serving in the 13th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (111th Brigade, 37th Division) en route to France and briefly in the Armentieres area (July - August 1915), in the line near Monchy (September 1915 - June 1916), on the Somme where he took part in a diversionary raid just before the Offensive opened and in attacks on La Boisselle and Pozieres (June - September ? 1916), on a sniping course (date unknown) and in the Ypres sector until he was wounded (July - August 1917); his experiences in 18th General Hospital at Cainiers and in hospital in England (August 1917), and in camp at Sheerness (September - November 1917); and his service with his Battalion in France again, taking part in the attack on the Hindenburg Line (November - December 1917). The diaries provide a good record of his service and contain interesting references to attempts at `sciving' during fatigues, to a drunken rifleman who was evacuated because he was thought to be suffering from shell-shock, and to the poor quality of treatment at the American-run 18th General Hospital, as well as good descriptions of his involvement in the Battles of the Somme and First Ypres and the attack on the Hindenburg Line.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1983-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 111th Brigade King's Royal Rifle Corps British Army 13th Battalion 37th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stock, Joseph William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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