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Description: | 5 ms diaries, July 1915 - July 1917, and 67 ms letters, August 1915 - November 1917, with ts transcription of both (94pp and 88pp), written during his service as a Private in the 2/6th Battalion Manchester Regiment (199th Brigade, 66th Division) at Gallipoli (July 1915 - January 1916), in Egypt (January 1916 - February 1917) and on the Western Front (March - November 1917), describing his embarkation to Gallipoli via Malta and Alexandria where many of his fellow soldiers entered the town against orders, the landings at Gallipoli, his first experience of being under fire, the provision of food, health including his suffering from rheumatism and treatment in a Stationary Hospital, the evacuation of the Peninsula and embarkation for Egypt; his duties in the Suez Canal zone including a week's leave in Alexandria and the Turkish evacuation of El Aresh; then embarkation to the Western Front where he witnessed the damage sustained to French villages by shelling, poison gas and trench warfare. Also included with the collection are ms training notes for the Lewis Gun (88pp), newspaper cuttings, 'Leave Train' railway ticket and sugar permit, plus 7 copies of 'The Sphinx', the official magazine of the 6th Battalion Manchester Regiment, covering March 1915 - February 1917.
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Catalogue date 2005-03-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cooke, S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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