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Ts transcription (49pp) of a diary, April 1915 - May 1916, kept while serving as a regular soldier in the 29th Divisional Cyclist Company principally at Gallipoli, giving from his position behind the lines useful observations of the main stages of the campaign including the preparations in Egypt and Lemnos, the landing at Helles, the fighting there and his work on fatigue parties notably on 1 July building a platform on Gully Beach for an execution (April - August), his move to Suvla Bay for the battle on 21 August, the arrival of the Newfoundland Regiment and the onset of debilitating sickness which resulted in his evacuation (August - October), before giving an account of his hospitalisation in Cairo at the Citadel Hospital and an unnamed convalescent home (October - December), his return to Lemnos to embark in the hospital ship BRITANNIC, the fast voyage back to the United Kingdom and his treatment in Southwark Military Hospital in south London where he was operated on for varicose veins (January - May 1916), together with a photograph of him
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Catalogue date 1995-03-31
