Description
Object description
Ms diary in 23 volumes (392pp), with a ts introduction and transcription, containing many entries reflecting the writer's iconoclastic attitudes and kept during his service as a reluctant but intelligent private soldier, December 1916 - November 1919, covering his voyage to the Middle East in the troopship IVERNIA, which was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on 1 January 1917; his service with the 19th Battalion Rifle Brigade on garrison duty in Egypt, January - August 1917, and active service with the 2/16th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (179th Brigade, 60th Division, and after July 1918 on the Western Front with 90th Brigade, 30th Division). The Battalion took part in the 3rd Battle of Gaza (October - November 1917), the capture and defence of Jerusalem (December 1917), operations in Palestine (spring 1918) and the final advance in Flanders (September - October 1918); with the diaries are an album of postcards and photographs, a number of maps and portrait photographs, and his identity discs.
Content description
Ms diary in 23 volumes (392pp), with a ts introduction and transcription, containing many entries reflecting the writer's iconoclastic attitudes and kept during his service as a reluctant but intelligent private soldier, December 1916 - November 1919, covering his voyage to the Middle East in the troopship IVERNIA, which was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on 1 January 1917; his service with the 19th Battalion Rifle Brigade on garrison duty in Egypt, January - August 1917, and active service with the 2/16th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (179th Brigade, 60th Division, and after July 1918 on the Western Front with 90th Brigade, 30th Division). The Battalion took part in the 3rd Battle of Gaza (October - November 1917), the capture and defence of Jerusalem (December 1917), operations in Palestine (spring 1918) and the final advance in Flanders (September - October 1918); with the diaries are an album of postcards and photographs, a number of maps and portrait photographs, and his identity discs.
History note
Cataloguer VAF
History note
Catalogue date 1979-11