Pocket-Diary 1916

Diary for the year 1916 with entries dated from 1 January to 31 December. Printed at Nile Mission Press, 37 Sharia Manakh, Cairo.

Diary commences with Jackson, a member of the Machine Gun Section of the Mounted Rifle Brigade, in Cairo. Describes visit to pyramids and the Sphinx in January. Late January trek in desert via Zeitoun and to Suez and Ismailiya. Visit and inspection of camp by Prince of Wales, accompanied by General Godley in March. Jackson went on to Port Said and from there back to the Dardanelles. Describes the camps and military action at Hill 70, better known as Scimitar Hill. Later in the year the diary describes action in the Sinai Desert and life at camp in Kantara [El Qantara], Egypt.

The diary includes a number of items originally laid in on page dated Wednesday, 19 April 1916: including a "Twenty-Five Piastres" banknote of "National Bank of Egypt", dated 7 June 1918; a holograph note in ink by Jackson to accompany two newspaper clippings dated 1958 describing the discovery of a message in a bottle thrown overboard from the troopship 'Willochra' departing Wellington on 15 August 1915.

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Quantity: 1 folder(s) single bound volume, a banknote, 2 newspaper clippings, and note on paper..

Physical Description: Diary bound in printed cloth, banknote, newspaper clippings, and holograph note in ink on paper.