Description
Object description
Ms diary (60pp) covering his service as a Gunner in the 1st Battery Canadian Field Artillery (1st Brigade, 1st Division) in France, January - November 1915, containing a summary of daily events including his crossing from England to France, his stationing at Meteren and his move to the firing line at Fleurbaix (March) and then to Sailly, Oudezeele and Poperinghe, his involvement in the 2nd Battle of Ypres including details of heavy bombardments and high casualties, their withdrawal and later move to Festubert (June), and including a list of casualties from the 1st Battery and notes on gun positions; together with miscellaneous papers from 1914 - 1918 including a list of the places at which he was stationed and a Canadian Corps intelligence map of Leek Wood with ms note showing where he was wounded (September 1918); notebooks kept whilst a cadet in the Officer Training Corps, 1917 - 1918; various Canadian trench journals from 1915 - 1918; letters and press cuttings from THE TIMES and THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT relating to book reviews, 1919 - 1938; papers relating to the Vimy Pilgrimage in July 1936; letters relating to the death of General Gott (1942); a photograph of the NCOs of 26th Battery CFA in Manitoba (June 1912) and photographs of people and places during 1914 - 1917 as well as the Prince of Wales' visit to Saskatchewan (1919) and the Vimy Pilgrimage (1936).
Content description
Ms diary (60pp) covering his service as a Gunner in the 1st Battery Canadian Field Artillery (1st Brigade, 1st Division) in France, January - November 1915, containing a summary of daily events including his crossing from England to France, his stationing at Meteren and his move to the firing line at Fleurbaix (March) and then to Sailly, Oudezeele and Poperinghe, his involvement in the 2nd Battle of Ypres including details of heavy bombardments and high casualties, their withdrawal and later move to Festubert (June), and including a list of casualties from the 1st Battery and notes on gun positions; together with miscellaneous papers from 1914 - 1918 including a list of the places at which he was stationed and a Canadian Corps intelligence map of Leek Wood with ms note showing where he was wounded (September 1918); notebooks kept whilst a cadet in the Officer Training Corps, 1917 - 1918; various Canadian trench journals from 1915 - 1918; letters and press cuttings from THE TIMES and THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT relating to book reviews, 1919 - 1938; papers relating to the Vimy Pilgrimage in July 1936; letters relating to the death of General Gott (1942); a photograph of the NCOs of 26th Battery CFA in Manitoba (June 1912) and photographs of people and places during 1914 - 1917 as well as the Prince of Wales' visit to Saskatchewan (1919) and the Vimy Pilgrimage (1936).
History note
Cataloguer JSK
History note
Catalogue date 2002-06-06