Description
Object description
Ts diary in two volumes (300pp) covering his service in the Army Service Corps at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli and on Lemnos, October 1915 - January 1916, as supplies officer to the 160th Brigade, 53rd Division, on attachment to the 9th Corps Transport Depot, and as officer commanding ASC Mudros East; in Egypt as requisitioning and district purchasing officer at the ASC Depot, Port Said, February - June 1916, as OC Supplies ASC Kantara, June 1916 - February 1917, in Alexandria principally as SSO 75th Division Train, April - May 1917, as OC ASC Suez and Port Tewfik, May - August 1917, as DADS (canteens) in Cairo, August - December 1917 and as DAQMG stationed principally near Jaffa in Palestine, December 1917 - September 1918, with some useful descriptions of the terrible conditions endured by troops during the Dardanelles campaign, numerous mentions of his administrative duties and references also to enemy air raids in Egypt, operations against the Turks in Egypt and Palestine, 1916 - 1918, and his devout Catholicism.
Content description
Ts diary in two volumes (300pp) covering his service in the Army Service Corps at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli and on Lemnos, October 1915 - January 1916, as supplies officer to the 160th Brigade, 53rd Division, on attachment to the 9th Corps Transport Depot, and as officer commanding ASC Mudros East; in Egypt as requisitioning and district purchasing officer at the ASC Depot, Port Said, February - June 1916, as OC Supplies ASC Kantara, June 1916 - February 1917, in Alexandria principally as SSO 75th Division Train, April - May 1917, as OC ASC Suez and Port Tewfik, May - August 1917, as DADS (canteens) in Cairo, August - December 1917 and as DAQMG stationed principally near Jaffa in Palestine, December 1917 - September 1918, with some useful descriptions of the terrible conditions endured by troops during the Dardanelles campaign, numerous mentions of his administrative duties and references also to enemy air raids in Egypt, operations against the Turks in Egypt and Palestine, 1916 - 1918, and his devout Catholicism.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1999-04