Description
Object description
Seven ts and ms diaries (389pp) with related correspondence (36pp) and official documents (207pp), such as orders, reports, and returns, recording his service as a senior officer with the British Army in Belgium, France and Germany, November 1914 - August 1919, including active service on the Western Front as commander of 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (16th Brigade, 8th Division), November 1914 - June 1915, notably at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 where he was wounded; the 16th Brigade (6th Division), June 1915 - July 1916, seeing action at Hooge in August 1915; the 34th Division, July 1916 - March 1919, participating in the Battles of the Somme, Arras, the Lys, the Marne, and the final advance in Flanders; and the Eastern Division, British Army of the Rhine, March 1919 - August 1919; and commenting on his duties, his routine, other officers, trench foot, the Christmas Truce of 1914, the casualties, the state of the men, the weather, his leaves in England, progress of the war, the accommodation, the conditions, discipline, the death of his only son, his health, sporting events, and visiting the battlefields; and mentioning important visitors, notably Field Marshal Lord Kitchener and the Prime Minister, H H Asquith (July 1915).
Content description
Seven ts and ms diaries (389pp) with related correspondence (36pp) and official documents (207pp), such as orders, reports, and returns, recording his service as a senior officer with the British Army in Belgium, France and Germany, November 1914 - August 1919, including active service on the Western Front as commander of 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (16th Brigade, 8th Division), November 1914 - June 1915, notably at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 where he was wounded; the 16th Brigade (6th Division), June 1915 - July 1916, seeing action at Hooge in August 1915; the 34th Division, July 1916 - March 1919, participating in the Battles of the Somme, Arras, the Lys, the Marne, and the final advance in Flanders; and the Eastern Division, British Army of the Rhine, March 1919 - August 1919; and commenting on his duties, his routine, other officers, trench foot, the Christmas Truce of 1914, the casualties, the state of the men, the weather, his leaves in England, progress of the war, the accommodation, the conditions, discipline, the death of his only son, his health, sporting events, and visiting the battlefields; and mentioning important visitors, notably Field Marshal Lord Kitchener and the Prime Minister, H H Asquith (July 1915).
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 2001-02-24