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Description: | Word processed transcription (54pp) of diaries kept by him as an NCO with the Royal Engineers (July 1916 – April 1919) covering his service in Mesopotamia, including notes on the voyage to Basra on SS ULYSSES and conditions on board, his impressions of Malta, Gibraltar, Salonika, Bombay, and Ashar, conditions of work and his billets in Amara, discipline, entertainment, constructing trenches for the British advance in Mesopotamia and details of the advance into Turkish territory, road building and bridge building fatigues, his impressions of the country and civilians on the march to Kut (March 1918), and his return to England and repatriation (March 1919).
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Engineers British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harrop, Charles | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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