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PAPERS INCLUDE DIARY WITH BRIEF ENTRIES DESCRIBING TRENCH CONDITIONS, ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENTS, HIS OPINIONS OF OFFICERS, GERMAN TROOPS, AND ENGLISH AT HAZEBROUCK. ALSO INCLUDES LETTER TO HEWITT DESCRIBING FARMING CONDITIONS AT HOME, AND THE WRITER'S WISH TO SEE THE SOLDIERS RETURN.
Brief diary entries describe training in Egypt and active service in France until evacuated with shell shock (July-Aug 1916). Includes detailed notes on German hand grenades and Mills hand grenade. Al
Collection relating to the First World War service of 3464 Private George Malcolm Buchanan, 15th Field Ambulance. Collection consists of four original handwritten diaries written from 1916 to 1919 inc
Detailed diary describing experiences as a stretcher bearer and caring for wounded in the trenches on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. Includes vivid descriptions of heavy gas attacks near Armenti
LETTERS WRITTEN DURING 1915 DESCRIBING CONDITIONS IN EGYPTIAN TRAINING CAMP, ACTION AT GALLIPOLI AND ENGLISH'S WOUNDING AND RECOVERY IN EGYPT. ONE LETTER FROM FRANCE, 1917, WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF D
Handwritten diary 1939-1946, kept by VX6714 Lieutenant Albert George Morris of Warrnambool, Australian Headquarters Guard Battalion while prisoner of war (POW) and after release. Morris was captured a
Collection relating to the First World War service of 2892 Private Frederick William Klingner, 4th Pioneer Battalion. Collection consists of a letter to his parents from Altdamm POW camp, describing