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Description: | Wordprocessed transcription (42pp) of a very well-written diary account recording his service as a private with the 7th Battalion Manchester Regiment (127th Brigade, 42nd Division), August 1914 - June 1915, describing his voluntary enlistment and embarkation onboard the GRANTULLY CASTLE, living conditions in the ship during their voyage from Southampton to Alexandria, Egypt (September 1914), inoculations, their journey to the Sudan (October 1914) where he describes his feelings regarding Khartoum and the local population and his posting to the native settlement at Sinkat (November - December 1914) where they shot local wildlife as sport, his Battalion's landing at Gallipoli (7 May 1915) at Cape Helles where he describes using the RIVER CLYDE as cover as they advanced onto the Peninsula under Turkish fire, his first experience of being in the trenches, the harsh conditions under which he and his fellow soldiers fought and lived, bathing parades, trench construction, the prevalence of unburied dead, the Third Battle of Krithia (4 June) in which he recounts the intense artillery bombardment, hand-to-hand trench fighting and graphic descriptions of the dead and wounded, then to Imbros for a rest period before returning to the Peninsula for a renewed attack on Krithia (28 June). He was wounded on 5 August and evacuated back to hospital in the United Kingdom; the collection includes a photograph of him in uniform, shown recovering from wounds.
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Catalogue date 2007-07-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gatley, J S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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