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Description: | Word processed transcription (91pp) of a diary written by him during his service with 4/5th Battalion The Black Watch (Highland Regiment) on the Western Front (February 1915 - January 1918), covering his embarkation with the battalion to join the 1st Army in France, his piping duties at Neuve Chapelle (March 1915), Aubers Ridge (May 1915), Loos (September 1915), Bethune (November 1915), Amiens (January 1916), Thiepval (October - November 1916), Ypres (November 1916), Pilkem Ridge (July 1917), Peronne (January 1918), and Amiens (March 1918), his experiences in the trenches and during the offensives, football matches between the battalions behind the front lines, and his frequent band practice and involvement in contests and entertaining civilians (1918); together with background notes covering the Black Watch, the duty and band tunes played, and a list of band members.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Macleod, D A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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