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Object description
Ms diary February - December 1916 recording his service as a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards (2nd Guards Brigade, Guards Division) rejoining the battalion at Poperinghe after leave and going with them to Calais for rest (March), his return to Poperinghe and periods in and behind the Ypres line (March - July), a move to the Somme area in August, seeing men jumping from drifting observation balloons, and taking part in attacks on Ginchy (13 September) and Les Boeufs (15 September), being relieved and going out of the line to Mericourt-en-Vimeux in October, returning to reserve in November and finally returning to the line in December, including useful references to sport and bombing accidents during the rest, the contrast between Belgium and France, the death of the actor Basil Hallam (20 August), watching the BATTLE OF THE SOMME film at Morlancourt (3 September), the use tanks in September, an inspection by the Duke of Connaught (1 November), the Somme line around Sailly in December and the escape of a Russian prisoner from the German lines (18 December).
Content description
Ms diary February - December 1916 recording his service as a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards (2nd Guards Brigade, Guards Division) rejoining the battalion at Poperinghe after leave and going with them to Calais for rest (March), his return to Poperinghe and periods in and behind the Ypres line (March - July), a move to the Somme area in August, seeing men jumping from drifting observation balloons, and taking part in attacks on Ginchy (13 September) and Les Boeufs (15 September), being relieved and going out of the line to Mericourt-en-Vimeux in October, returning to reserve in November and finally returning to the line in December, including useful references to sport and bombing accidents during the rest, the contrast between Belgium and France, the death of the actor Basil Hallam (20 August), watching the BATTLE OF THE SOMME film at Morlancourt (3 September), the use tanks in September, an inspection by the Duke of Connaught (1 November), the Somme line around Sailly in December and the escape of a Russian prisoner from the German lines (18 December).
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Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1992-01