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Description: | Ms diary for 1915 covering his training as a subaltern in the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (163rd Infantry Brigade, 54th Division) in East Anglia, with many critical comments on his commanding officer and their training programme (January - July), their passage out to the Dardanelles on the troopship AQUITANIA (July - August) his two days' service at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli before he was seriously wounded during the Battalion's disastrous attack (the `Vanishing Norfolks') on 12 August and his subsequent treatment in Tigne Hospital, Malta (August - September) and Lady Evelyn Mason's Officers Hospital in London (September - December); together with 5 ms letters to his family (August 1915) giving a critical account of his experiences on the AQUITANIA and a graphic one of his service at Gallipoli, 3 official telegrams to his father concerning his wounds (August 1915), an exchange of letters about the 1/5th Norfolks' attack with the official historian Brigadier-General Aspinall-Oglander (January 1931), a group photograph of the Battalion's officers prior to embarkation, a printed copy of Captain Pelly's booklet `Some Notes on Infantry Drill' published in March 1918 during his service with the 1/2nd Battalion Essex Volunteer Reserve, and his DORA permit book allowing him to sketch and photograph in Cornwall (August 1918).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1990-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 163rd Infantry Brigade 1/5th Battalion 54th Division British Army Norfolk Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pelly, Arthur Roland | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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