A Clive Johns, fl 1918 - Diaries

Diaries kept by A Clive Johns, 9th Hawkes Bay Company, 1st Battalion, Wellington Infantry Brigade while on active service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War One. The diaries commence on 1 Jan 1917 while Johns was undergoing training at Sling Camp. On 12 February he landed in France where he saw action until 17 October when he was wounded by a shell. He was hospitalised in England at Brockenhurst. He left England for New Zealand aboard the hospital ship `Marama' on 7 April 1918.

See 2003/107, MS-2003-107 for related material at the Auckland Museum Library. A C Johns books and scrapbooks are in box 23 of this collection.

Quantity: 2 volume(s).

Physical Description: Mss