Description
Object description
A ms diary for 1945 (70pp) of a soldier from Manchester, serving in an unnamed Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) unit (possibly 130th Field Ambulance) giving mostly brief entries of his movements and appointments but with some more detailed entries about combat operations and shelling, starting the year in Nuth, Holland, being attached to 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment (130th Infantry Brigade, 43rd (Wessex) Division) (January 1945), moving to Schinveld, before crossing into Germany, rest in Nijmegan, Holland, an attack on the Seigfried Line with details of his pack being riddled with shrapnel, and casualties (February 1945), seeing V1s passing overhead, crossing and recrossing the Dutch, German and Belgian borders, moving to Glinstedt and the surrender of the German Army (May 1945), seeing German prisoners, moving casualties, going to a hospital in a former prisoner of war camp in Munster, in charge of German working parties digging graves, home leave prior to moving to South East Asia Command (SEAC) (August 1945), details of his journey to India in HMT GEORGIC (September 1945), time in 47 reception camp at Chittagong, joining 53rd Indian General Hospital RIAMC (October 1945), and 14th Casualty Clearing Station in Bangkok, Thailand, and with notes, names and addresses, and other lists and places scribbled in the diary. Together with a photograph of Webb in tropical kit (1943).
Content description
A ms diary for 1945 (70pp) of a soldier from Manchester, serving in an unnamed Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) unit (possibly 130th Field Ambulance) giving mostly brief entries of his movements and appointments but with some more detailed entries about combat operations and shelling, starting the year in Nuth, Holland, being attached to 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment (130th Infantry Brigade, 43rd (Wessex) Division) (January 1945), moving to Schinveld, before crossing into Germany, rest in Nijmegan, Holland, an attack on the Seigfried Line with details of his pack being riddled with shrapnel, and casualties (February 1945), seeing V1s passing overhead, crossing and recrossing the Dutch, German and Belgian borders, moving to Glinstedt and the surrender of the German Army (May 1945), seeing German prisoners, moving casualties, going to a hospital in a former prisoner of war camp in Munster, in charge of German working parties digging graves, home leave prior to moving to South East Asia Command (SEAC) (August 1945), details of his journey to India in HMT GEORGIC (September 1945), time in 47 reception camp at Chittagong, joining 53rd Indian General Hospital RIAMC (October 1945), and 14th Casualty Clearing Station in Bangkok, Thailand, and with notes, names and addresses, and other lists and places scribbled in the diary. Together with a photograph of Webb in tropical kit (1943).
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Cataloguer SJO