Our Great Grandfather's War Diary
Images of war diary.
We recently discovered our Great Gandfather's typed War diary from Ypres. It outlines some significant events he witnessed first hand including the French-Algerian troops being helped back to the town having suffered the first gas attack of WW1.
He was later wounded whilst he and a friend were taking shots at the German lines with a pair of Officer's filed glasses they found. His account of their subsequent escape is harrowing in its matter of fact approach to their unlikely success at escaping.
Algerian gas attack account and front line fighting
War Diary
Western Front
Ypres Ieper
Diary
Acount of WW1 Ypres, 1916. Algerian's on the receiving end of the first German gas attack.
Subsequent sniping resulted in him bring shelled and a grim account of his escape under fire is quite harrowing in its frankness.
CONTRIBUTOR
Joe Lucas
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
7
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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