Description
Object description
Interesting ms trench diary, 19 July - 8 September 1915, compiled while serving as a Sergeant in 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (33rd Brigade, 11th Division) at Gallipoli, listing battalion operations, orders, daily activities and strengths and casualties, including landings at Cape Helles (attached to 1st Brigade, Royal Naval Division) and Suvla Bay, with particular emphasis on 9 August when Captain P H Hansen won the VC; together with a 1915 ms Pocket Diary, covering mainly August 1915 - January 1916, concerning his time at Gallipoli and as a casualty cleared to Cairo (10 November) and England, four other ms accounts of the Battalion action on 9 August 1915, ts copy of Battalion orders for the landing at Suvla Bay signed by Captain Hansen, ms copy of Battalion orders for 21 August 1915, two ms letters from Hansen to Gibbons and other miscellaneous documents concerning 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment and its service at Gallipoli.
Content description
Interesting ms trench diary, 19 July - 8 September 1915, compiled while serving as a Sergeant in 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (33rd Brigade, 11th Division) at Gallipoli, listing battalion operations, orders, daily activities and strengths and casualties, including landings at Cape Helles (attached to 1st Brigade, Royal Naval Division) and Suvla Bay, with particular emphasis on 9 August when Captain P H Hansen won the VC; together with a 1915 ms Pocket Diary, covering mainly August 1915 - January 1916, concerning his time at Gallipoli and as a casualty cleared to Cairo (10 November) and England, four other ms accounts of the Battalion action on 9 August 1915, ts copy of Battalion orders for the landing at Suvla Bay signed by Captain Hansen, ms copy of Battalion orders for 21 August 1915, two ms letters from Hansen to Gibbons and other miscellaneous documents concerning 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment and its service at Gallipoli.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1987-01-27