MANUSCRIPT
Soldier's diary
- Date
- 31 Dec 1916 - 31 Dec 1917
- Reference
- MSX-9043
- Description
Comprises one World War One diary documenting personal experiences of Dudley James Frederick Jeune, service number 41403, from 31 December 1916 to 31 December 1917. Part of 25th Reinforcements, NZFA. Covers the time period in a New Zealand army camp prior to leaving for war, the voyage on SS Turakina via Freemantle, Sydney, Sierra Leone, to arrival in Plymouth, England, leave and camp life in England, arrival in Boulogne, France, life at the front, working with horses and war action as part of 13th Battery, 3rd Brigade, New Zealand Field Artillery (NZFA), and a snowy Christmas and New Year 1917. Diary includes continuation of date entries at the front of the diary, plus addresses, financial notes, lists of ships, the military identification details for Jeune. Also includes diagram of wiring for a DIII field telephone.
Accompanying note with diary identifies that the diary was given to "Dud" by his parents on 15th Jan 1917.
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Mss and printed matter
Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project.
Digitisation details - 425 digitised images
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Jeune, Dudley James Frederick, 1897-1949 : World War One papers
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Diaries, Manuscripts, Mss and printed matter
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