|
Date: |
|
Description: | Ms diary (33pp) written by him (March 1915 - February 1918) during his service with 6th Battalion Rifle Brigade (80 Infantry Brigade, 27 Division) in France and Salonika covering briefly his arrival in France and immediate injury (March 1915), his return to the regiment at Armentieres (July 1915) and tour of the trenches at Hooge (August 1915) and Amiens (September 1915), his posting and journey to Salonika (November 1915), conditions there and his hospitalization with fever (February 1916), his return to the battalion on divisional manoeuvres and defence work on the beaches (April 1916), his hospitalization with malaria (October 1916) and evacuation to Malta, his return to the battalion as an officers servant (March 1917) and brief attachment to 5th Entrenching Battalion for road making duties, a tour of the trenches (July - August 1917), and his final evacuation after contracting malaria (February 1918); together with 15 ms letters (21pp) to him from Lady Clarendon in London (May 1915 - November 1920), interesting for her continued patronage of him as a former employee and for the notes on her war work arranging kitchens for munition factories and enrolling recruits for the Women's Land Army; his soldiers' small book, pay book and notebook; 2 maps of the Salonika coastline; 39 printed postcards of Salonika; and printed greetings cards and service sheets from the Salonika Reunion Association (1961 - 1968).
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 2008-01-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Townsend, C H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
|