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Description: | Ms transcript (300pp) compiled in 1919 with various enclosures and with further explanatory notes added in the 1960s, of detailed diaries covering his enlistment and training in the 28th (Western Australian) Battalion AIF in Australia, March - June 1915, and his subsequent service, as a signaller rising to the rank of corporal, with the Battalion (2nd Division AIF) in Egypt, July - August 1915 and January - February 1916, at Anzac, Gallipoli, from September - November 1915 when he was evacuated sick, and in France and Belgium, March - November 1916, February - May 1917 and February 1918 - March 1919. The diaries include accounts of the Battalion's costly attacks on Pozieres Ridge (July - August 1916) and at Flers (November 1916) during the Battle of the Somme and at Bullecourt (3 May 1917) and of their operations during the German offensive (April - May 1918) and the subsequent Allied advance to and beyond the Hindenburg Line (July - October 1918) as well as interesting references to comradeship, bravery, discipline and desertions among Australian troops. With the diary is an ms journal (55pp) covering Blow's journey from East Anglia to Western Australia as an emigrant in September and October 1910.
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Catalogue date 1980-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Blows, O S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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