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Accession Number | AWM2016.30.62 |
Collection number | 1DRL/0198 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 1 |
Object type | Diary |
Physical description | 21 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Chapman, Percy Wellesley |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, France, United Kingdom: England |
Date made | 1916-1917; 1927 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Typescript copy of diary entries of Percy Wellesley Chapman, 26 July 1916 to 9 March 1917
Description
Diary entries relating to the First World War service of Percy Wellesley Chapman, These descriptive entries date from 26 July 1916 to 9 March 1917. In these entries, Chapman describes time spent serving on the Western Front in France, including conditions behind the lines, dugouts, the destruction of French villages, and training in an old convent. This transcript was made by the Australian War Memorial in 1927.