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Description: | Ts transcription (13pp) of a pocket diary covering his service as an 18-year old 2nd Lieutenant with the 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) (8th Brigade, 3rd Division) in France and Belgium, August - October 1914, describing his battalion's crossing to France and reception by the local people, the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne in September and the fighting at La Bassee in October, where he was wounded.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1977-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McDougall, D J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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