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Description: | Photocopied ts transcription (41pp) of a diary kept during his service as an NCO with the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards (4th Guards Brigade, 2nd Division, from August 1915 the 1st Guards Brigade, Guards Division), August 1914 - December 1917, and later the 4th Pioneer Battalion (Guards Division), January - April 1918, describing his enlistment as a reservist and involvement in the Battles of First Ypres (October - November 1914), Neuve Chapelle (March 1915), Loos (October 1915) and the final part of the Somme (Flers-Courcelette, September 1916) together with references to living conditions in the trenches, German atrocities, Belgian refugees, the prevalence of unburied dead, zeppelin raids on Britain, the use of tanks, German prisoners, American troops, brief spells in hospital in France and the United Kingdom from wounds, trench fever and suspected shell shock, and his rescue of several men from a gas-filled mine at Givenchy (25 April 1915) for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Together with photocopies (5pp) of his Army service records, which reveal various convictions and punishments for insubordination and overstaying his leave as well as his award of the DCM.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2000-03-14 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Fairbrother, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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