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Object description
Photocopy of an ms transcript (13pp, plus one ms map) of the diary written at the end of August 1914 by a 2nd Lieutenant in 70 Battery, 34th Brigade RFA (2nd Division) covering the Battery's crossing to France on the SS ROSETTI (17 August), their journey by train to Wassigny and move into billets at Le Vieux Mesnil, their advance into Belgium and action on the first day of the Battle of Mons when he was wounded by shellfire during a fierce engagement (23 August), and his evacuation by ambulance to a French hospital at Landrecies, by train to another hospital in Rouen, on the ST ANDREW from Rouen to Southampton and on by train to Sister Agnes' Hospital in London (late August), with interesting references to the very friendly reception given to the BEF by French and Belgian civilians, his high regard for his Battery commander and reflections on some of his NCOs and men, his analysis of his conduct when his Battery came under fire and suffered casualties, conditions in the ambulances and hospitals where he received treatment, and the growing anxiety among French civilians about the proximity of the Germans.
Content description
Photocopy of an ms transcript (13pp, plus one ms map) of the diary written at the end of August 1914 by a 2nd Lieutenant in 70 Battery, 34th Brigade RFA (2nd Division) covering the Battery's crossing to France on the SS ROSETTI (17 August), their journey by train to Wassigny and move into billets at Le Vieux Mesnil, their advance into Belgium and action on the first day of the Battle of Mons when he was wounded by shellfire during a fierce engagement (23 August), and his evacuation by ambulance to a French hospital at Landrecies, by train to another hospital in Rouen, on the ST ANDREW from Rouen to Southampton and on by train to Sister Agnes' Hospital in London (late August), with interesting references to the very friendly reception given to the BEF by French and Belgian civilians, his high regard for his Battery commander and reflections on some of his NCOs and men, his analysis of his conduct when his Battery came under fire and suffered casualties, conditions in the ambulances and hospitals where he received treatment, and the growing anxiety among French civilians about the proximity of the Germans.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2004-09