Description: | Two ms pocket diaries and ts transcription (44pp) kept during his service as a signaller in the RGA, January 1917 - October 1918, with brief entries describing his training in England in camps near Plymouth, January - May 1917, at Catterick, May - June 1917, and at Lydd, June - October 1917, his voyage to Egypt in HMT CITY OF BENARES, October - November 1917, his training in Egypt, November 1917 - January 1918, and his active service in the Palestine campaign with No 262 Field Battery, RGA (sic) (21st Corps) on signalling duties, May - October 1918, during which he took part in the 2nd Action at Es Salt, April - May 1918, and the Battles of Megiddo, September 1918, and at Brigade HQ working on the telephone exchange, March - May 1918 and October 1918.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1981-06 |