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Ts transcription (40pp), January 1916 - November 1918, of a diary written by him whilst serving as an NCO and signaller with the 2/15th Battalion London Regiment (Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles), (179th Brigade, 60th Division) describing training on Salisbury Plain, being sent to Ireland during the disturbances of May 1916, returning to England and embarking for France in June 1916, taking over the front line near Neuville-St-Vaast and reinforcing trenches, laying and relaying signal lines, attacks and counter attacks and leaving the front after five months, travelling to Marseilles and embarking on the SS MEGANTIC for Salonika, setting up signal posts in the hills around Mount Olympus, operations against Bulgar forces, securing the area in February 1917, marching to Vardar to further engage the enemy, receiving orders to embark for Alexandria in June 1917 and moving into Palestine to begin the first of several long desert marches to engage Turkish and Austrian forces, engaging and defeating them at the Battle of Beersheba in October 1917, capturing and liberating Jerusalem in December 1917 and eventually driving the Turks into Jordan, having leave in Cairo and then travelling from Alexandria to Italy, into France and eventually on to Paris. He also mentions an ongoing leg injury, a spell in hospital, seeing England for the first time in two years and returning to France until the Armistice.
Content description
Ts transcription (40pp), January 1916 - November 1918, of a diary written by him whilst serving as an NCO and signaller with the 2/15th Battalion London Regiment (Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles), (179th Brigade, 60th Division) describing training on Salisbury Plain, being sent to Ireland during the disturbances of May 1916, returning to England and embarking for France in June 1916, taking over the front line near Neuville-St-Vaast and reinforcing trenches, laying and relaying signal lines, attacks and counter attacks and leaving the front after five months, travelling to Marseilles and embarking on the SS MEGANTIC for Salonika, setting up signal posts in the hills around Mount Olympus, operations against Bulgar forces, securing the area in February 1917, marching to Vardar to further engage the enemy, receiving orders to embark for Alexandria in June 1917 and moving into Palestine to begin the first of several long desert marches to engage Turkish and Austrian forces, engaging and defeating them at the Battle of Beersheba in October 1917, capturing and liberating Jerusalem in December 1917 and eventually driving the Turks into Jordan, having leave in Cairo and then travelling from Alexandria to Italy, into France and eventually on to Paris. He also mentions an ongoing leg injury, a spell in hospital, seeing England for the first time in two years and returning to France until the Armistice.
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Cataloguer JHK
History note
Catalogue date 2007-08-28