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Description: | 4 ms diaries for 1914 - 1917 covering his service as a medical officer in the RAMC at the Preston Military Barracks, Brighton (November 1914 - March 1915) and then Newhaven (March - August 1915), before embarking on the hospital ship AQUITANIA for Gallipoli (October 1915), where he was attached first to the 3rd Lowland Field Ambulance (52nd Division), then the 1st Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers (87th Infantry Brigade, 29th Division), and finally the 17th Siege Battery RGA, with which he was evacuated on 6 January 1916, proceeding via Lemnos to Egypt (January - April 1916) before embarking for France (April 1916) and being posted to 24 Heavy Artillery Group at Poperinghe where he was successively attached to the 39th, 35th, 118th and 158th Siege Batteries RGA, until he began to suffer from neurasthenia (October 1916), and was evacuated to Ulster to convalesce, his 1917 diary recording his gradual return to full health so that by November he was able to take up a civilian position at Aberdeen hospital. A small number of original documents, including a very interesting correspondence comprising 9 ms letters and 2 postcards to his elder brother and 7 ms letters (2 incomplete) to his wife, November 1914 - August 1917, a medical notebook, the telegram ordering his embarkation on the AQUITANIA for Gallipoli, his diary notes for January - February 1916 and a BEF travel pass (September 1916), are held separately from the microfilm.
Cataloguer HFM
Catalogue date 1987-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 17th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 87th Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion 52nd Division 3rd (Lowland) Field Ambulance King's Own Scottish Borderers British Army Royal Army Medical Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | West, B A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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