A prose account by Private Alvin Whiteley 41739 of his time in The Frontiersmen (25th Batt. Royal Fusiliers), travelling by ship to Africa and his service there, 1916. The journey to Africa is described in detail, as well as the life of a soldier (the language reflects the period) at Korogwe, at Maktau, at Gaveta in German East Africa. This campaign of the Legion of Frontiersmen was covered in the book The Battle for the Bundu and Alvin appears as the private who played the piano in the Officers Mess and one of the two thousand sent home with dysentery/malaria in one particular month.
Transcript by James Hewitt of a prose account by Alvin Whiteley of his time in The Frontiersmen (25th Batt. Royal Fusiliers)