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Description: | 2 pocket diaries containing well-written entries describing his crossing in a troop transport from Canada to England (March 1916), his final training in Hampshire (March - April 1916) and his service on the Western Front as a private in No 9 Canadian Field Ambulance (3rd Canadian Division) from April 1916 to September 1917, including a long period of sickness in hospitals and convalescent camps in France in early 1917, and then as an NCO with the 15th Canadian Machine Gun Company (also 3rd Canadian Division) from October to December 1917, together with a notebook kept while serving in the 3rd Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps in France during 1918, his pay book, discharge certificate and 3 photographs of him in uniform. The most interesting entries in the diaries record his favourable opinion of England and London, his impressions of the fighting on the Somme (September - October 1916) and at Passchendaele (October - November 1917) and of conditions in and between the lines in the Ypres Salient and the Vimy Ridge and Loos sectors, and his poor view of Church of England chaplains.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1986-02-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 3rd Battalion 9th Canadian Field Ambulance 3rd Canadian Division Canadian Army 15th Canadian Machine Gun Company Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Canadian Machine Gun Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Davis, J S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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