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Description: | Ms diary (32pp) with both ms (27pp) and ts (16pp) transcriptions of his service as a Private with the 2/1st (City of London) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (88th Brigade, 29th Division, joining the 53rd Division in January 1916), 12 January 1915 - 12 April 1919, recording his enlistment at the age of 18, the journey he undertook on SS GADEKA to the Gallipoli Peninsula (1 February - 25 September 1915), his experiences in the trenches at Suvla Bay, his wounding by mortar shrapnel (30 December 1915) and the subsequent medical treatment he received back in England at 4th London General Hospital, also noting his later embarkation to France attached to the 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (19th Brigade, 33rd Division) and then the 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (124th Brigade, 41st Division) (10 July 1916 - 15 May 1917), the action that he saw and the living conditions he endured on the Western Front, his hospitalisation in England due to a lung infection, returning to France on 25 September 1917 as well as the duties he performed on the Front Line near Ypres until he was taken ill again and sent back to England to convalesce (June 1918), ending with an account of how he spent his final months of the war in Belgium before his demobilisation (April 1919); with two photographs of him one with his unit's football team and the other as a patient in hospital; also accompanied by his service medals, demobilisation papers and four cartoons drawn by him satirising the First World War.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2008-02-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Isom, C H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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