Description
Object description
Ms diary (76pp) of his service as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 13th (City of London) Regiment Royal Fusiliers (112th Brigade, 37th Division), 20 April - 31 December 1918, relating his training and daily routine prior to his embarkation to France on 31 July 1918 and his subsequent activities in the trenches, including vigorous descriptions of his participation in the 2nd Battle of the Somme (August 1918), the unsettling sound of artillery, his experience of being gassed, the startling number of disembodied corpses he saw on the battlefield and the medical treatment he received at a dressing station on the Front Line and then at No 3 General Hospital near Treport after he sustained considerable injuries to his head on 23 August 1918, also recording how he spent the rest of the war convalescing at Liverpool and then Belfast as well as the celebrations he took part in when the Armistice was declared (November 1918); accompanied by a number of official records relating to his service including his platoon roll book, training instruction leaflet, his officers advance payslips, a certificate acknowledging his commission, dated 30 January 1918, a telegram announcing his wounding on 26 August 1918, a trench map showing the area where he was wounded, release letters as well as his demobilisation and pension papers.
Content description
Ms diary (76pp) of his service as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 13th (City of London) Regiment Royal Fusiliers (112th Brigade, 37th Division), 20 April - 31 December 1918, relating his training and daily routine prior to his embarkation to France on 31 July 1918 and his subsequent activities in the trenches, including vigorous descriptions of his participation in the 2nd Battle of the Somme (August 1918), the unsettling sound of artillery, his experience of being gassed, the startling number of disembodied corpses he saw on the battlefield and the medical treatment he received at a dressing station on the Front Line and then at No 3 General Hospital near Treport after he sustained considerable injuries to his head on 23 August 1918, also recording how he spent the rest of the war convalescing at Liverpool and then Belfast as well as the celebrations he took part in when the Armistice was declared (November 1918); accompanied by a number of official records relating to his service including his platoon roll book, training instruction leaflet, his officers advance payslips, a certificate acknowledging his commission, dated 30 January 1918, a telegram announcing his wounding on 26 August 1918, a trench map showing the area where he was wounded, release letters as well as his demobilisation and pension papers.
History note
Cataloguer CLS
History note
Catalogue date 2008-02-26