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Object description
Notebook containing ms journal (65pp written circa 1919) by an anonymous member of an unknown British Army regiment describing his experiences serving in the trenches near Wytschaete, Belgium in August 1917, giving very good accounts of the process of reaching the front line, conditions in and out of the line, his experiences in a wiring party, hiding in a shell hole in no man's land, being captured and, told in rather restrained fashion, the terrible conditions experienced as a POW, partly as reprisals for alleged maltreatment by the British of German POWs, at Coutrai and Sermonde in Belgium, Dulmen, Gustrow and Gettorf (near Kiel) in Germany, with particularly interesting details of the spread of the Kiel revolution, the release of POWs by revolutionaries in November 1918, and his repatriation.
Content description
Notebook containing ms journal (65pp written circa 1919) by an anonymous member of an unknown British Army regiment describing his experiences serving in the trenches near Wytschaete, Belgium in August 1917, giving very good accounts of the process of reaching the front line, conditions in and out of the line, his experiences in a wiring party, hiding in a shell hole in no man's land, being captured and, told in rather restrained fashion, the terrible conditions experienced as a POW, partly as reprisals for alleged maltreatment by the British of German POWs, at Coutrai and Sermonde in Belgium, Dulmen, Gustrow and Gettorf (near Kiel) in Germany, with particularly interesting details of the spread of the Kiel revolution, the release of POWs by revolutionaries in November 1918, and his repatriation.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1990-12