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Description: | 5 ms diaries (rewritten 1929 - 1933) recording intermittently his service overseas (September 1915 - October 1919), including his transfer as a private from the Cyclists Corps to the Gas Companies of the Royal Engineers (September 1915); training at St Mary's Barracks, Chatham (September - October 1915); then at Helfaut, near St Omer, France (October 1915) as a Corporal; then active service with No 189 Company RE (October 1915 - June 1916) in Northern France (at Bilques the Company was reorganised and became 4th Battalion of the Special Brigade RE, January 1916); commissioned into the Indian Army (November 1917), and journeying to India in the WALMER CASTLE via Sierra Leone and South Africa (December 1917 - January 1918); active service in Quetta, India, with 1st Battalion 22nd Punjabis (4th Indian Division) as a Lewis Gun Officer and Company Commander (January - May 1919); and then as Adjutant of the Indian Base Depot, Baluchistan Field Force during the Third Afghan War (May - August 1919); and journey in the BREMEN from Bombay via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, to the UK and demobilisation (September - October 1919); commenting on life in the trenches and the billets; fraternisation with the Germans by the Guards (Christmas 1915); gas training; life on a troopship and the boat drills; life in India; the Indian Army and its inherent snobbery; relations with locals including tribesmen; Punjab riots; and mentioning Major General C H Foulkes and General Sir Charles Monro. Also included are 3 photograph albums recording his service with the 12th Officer Cadet Battalion at Newmarket in 1916 and in India and Afghanistan, c 1917 - 1919.
Cataloguer SHJ
Catalogue date 2000-03-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ginns, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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