Description
Object description
2 ms diaries with ts transcriptions describing his service first as a private in the 1/1st Battalion Honourable Artillery Company (September 1914 - January 1915) detailing the battalion's departure from England, a period in St Nazaire as Lines of Communication troops (September - November), his brief attachment to GHQ as a signaller (31 October - 4 November) and the battalion's attachment to the 3rd Division, first the 8th Brigade and then the 9th Brigade, giving a good account of the misery of the conditions during the first winter of the war (November 1914 - January 1915) with references to food, shelling and an inspection by the King (3 December), then second as a subaltern in the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers (87th Brigade, 29th Division) at Gallipoli (May - July 1915) describing his journey out through the Mediterranean to Mudros where he was transferred to Helles (26 May) in preparation for the battalion's part in the Third Battle of Krithia (4 June) during which he was wounded and eventually evacuated to hospitals first on Lemnos and then in Cairo before being returned to England, giving descriptions of conditions at Gallipoli and in the hospitals.
Content description
2 ms diaries with ts transcriptions describing his service first as a private in the 1/1st Battalion Honourable Artillery Company (September 1914 - January 1915) detailing the battalion's departure from England, a period in St Nazaire as Lines of Communication troops (September - November), his brief attachment to GHQ as a signaller (31 October - 4 November) and the battalion's attachment to the 3rd Division, first the 8th Brigade and then the 9th Brigade, giving a good account of the misery of the conditions during the first winter of the war (November 1914 - January 1915) with references to food, shelling and an inspection by the King (3 December), then second as a subaltern in the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers (87th Brigade, 29th Division) at Gallipoli (May - July 1915) describing his journey out through the Mediterranean to Mudros where he was transferred to Helles (26 May) in preparation for the battalion's part in the Third Battle of Krithia (4 June) during which he was wounded and eventually evacuated to hospitals first on Lemnos and then in Cairo before being returned to England, giving descriptions of conditions at Gallipoli and in the hospitals.
History note
Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1989-12-22