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Officers' Diaries, August 1914 - October 1919

Collection: Life on the Front Line: Diaries, News, and Letters from the First World War, 1914-1919    Volumes    Officers' Diaries, August 1914 - October 1919
These diaries feature a concerted focus on the Battle of the Somme between November 1915 and November 1916 with accounts of action in Beaumont Hamel, Flers-Courcelette, the Fricourt sector, Ginchy, Les Boeufs, and Transloy Ridges. They also contain a secondary focus upon the fighting around the town of Ypres between 1915 and 1917, through accounts from the second and third battles of Ypres including the Ypres Salient and battle for the Messines Ridge. These records also incorporate two accounts of the battle of Loos dating from 1915, two accounts from the battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 and an account of fighting at Bethune.
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Blackadder, Lieutenant R.J.

IWM ref: 88/11/1. Ts diary describing his service with the 151st Siege Battery RGA (99th Howitzer Brigade RGA), August 1916-June 1919, from its formation in Scotland through its entire period...

Date:1916-1919
Contributor:Imperial War Museum
Identifier:a-02

Agius, Captain A.J.J.P.

IWM ref: 99/70/1. Loose-leaf ms diary covering his service as a machine gun officer with the 1/3rd Battalion, 2 January-14 March 1915. Describing his unit's departure from Malta and arrival...

Date:1915-1915
Contributor:Imperial War Museum
Identifier:a-01

Wyllie, Lieutenant Colonel H.

Ref: 84/5/1 & 1A. Ms diary and ts of diary, covering his service on the Western Front as an observer with No. 4 (November-December 1914) and No. 6 army cooperation...

Date:1914-1918
Contributor:Imperial War Museum
Identifier:a-21

Wollocombe, 2nd Lieutenant F.

IWM ref: 95/33/1. Bound printed edition of diary and letters home from France. Covering his service as a subaltern in the 9th Battalion Devonshire Regiment (20th Brigade, 7th Division) in...

Date:1915-1916
Contributor:Imperial War Museum
Identifier:a-20

Sansom, Captain W.H.

IWM ref: 01/21/1. Ms diary, with ts, containing intermittent entries recording his service with the 174th Tunnelling Company RE on the Somme (November 1915-December 1916), commenting mainly on trench life,...

Date:1915-1916
Contributor:Imperial War Museum
Identifier:a-19

Russell-Jones, Lieutenant E.

IWM ref: P210. Ms diary, with ts, written at intervals during the morning and early afternoon of the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916) when...

Date:1916-1916
Contributor:Imperial War Museum
Identifier:a-18

Pilditch, Major P.H.

IWM ref: Con Shelf. Bound, cyclostyled account entitled "The War Diary of an Artillery Officer, 1914-1919", August 1914-February 1919, covering his joining the 7th (London) Brigade RFA at the beginning...

Date:1914-1919
Contributor:Imperial War Museum
Identifier:a-17

Meysey-Thompson, Captain H.C.

IWM ref: 92/19/1. Bound ts of diary describing his enlistment on 5th August 1914 in the Inns of Court OTC and his training until being commissioned in October 1914 into...

Date:1914-1919
Contributor:Imperial War Museum
Identifier:a-16
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