My Grandfather Arthur Newstead served with the 225th and 101st Field Company Royal Engineers from July 18th 1916 until he returned home to Norwich April 4th 1919. His diary details hair-raising day to day events, names and addresses of fellow soldiers, formulas for demolition and for bridge building, a record of his pay etc. he was the youngest of eight brothers who served in WW1. Amazingly all of them survived. || 33 Diary scans and various documents relating to demob and war pension || || Diary || Diary page July 18th 1916 - Sept 26th 1916 Joins 225th company R E. at the Somme. Present at the offensive of 3rd September. Heavy losses || Joins 225th RE || || Goes over the top, 400yds of trench captured || Diary page September 26th - Oct 28. Digs communication trench through no mans land. Goes over top 28th October. 400yds trench captured || || Major offensive Beaumont Hamel? || Diary entry November 13th 1916 - big offensive 5000 prisoners captured || Diary || || Comparatively quiet Friday || Diary entry November 15th - 26th 1916. Troop movements || || Diary || Ypres. 6000 prisoners. || Diary entry Dec 21st 1916 - June 7th 1917. June 2nd bombardment. Slightly gassed - in hospital for 26 days. Runs into a brother Ernie || || Diary entry June 11th - July 24th (page order is confused) || Diary || Ypres. Mines. Hill 60 || || Carnage in the open. Only cover shell holes || Diary || Diary entry July 28th - August 20th 1917 || || Intense bombardment, company loses, 30 horses killed. || Diary entry August 21st - September 4th 1917 || || Fed up with this front 15,000 prisoners taken || Diary || Diary entry September 14th - October 14th 1917 || || Diary entry October 18th 1917 - February 16th 1918 || Arrives Italian front Dec 2nd || Diary || || Diary entry February 22nd - March 22nd 1918 || Home leave March 2nd - 16th || || Osiago Plateau ? || Diary entry March 27th - June 15th 1918 || || Major Offensive, gas shells || Diary entry June 15th - 18th 1918 || Diary || || Diary || Diary entry July 20th - Sept 27th 1918 || Various billets || || Diary entry October 13th - 27th 1918 || Big attack October 27th || Diary || || Diary || Diary entry November 4th 1918 || Armistice to be signed by Austria || || Earthquake. Germany signs Armistice || Diary entry October 6th - November 11th 1918 || || Diary entry November 21st 1918 - March 4th 1919 || Attached to 101st || || Arrives home || Diary entry March 23rd - April 4th 1919 || || Starts work || Diary entry May 5th 1919 - October 24th 1919 || Diary || || Diary || Diary entry no date || Calculate load bearing capacity of temporary bridges || || Addresses and map of GB || Diary || Diary entry no date || || Diary entry figures for 24/2/18 to 23/3/19 || Diary || List of monies || || Diary entry March 14th 1919 The 6 Points of the 101st || Diary || Rebellion in the ranks? || || Diary entry no date || Diary || List of authors, notes about leatherworking? || || Diary entry no date || List of french towns, addresses || Diary || || Diary entry no date || Addresses and map of GB || Diary || || Diary entry no date || notes and figures || Diary || || Pvte F Soames? || Diary || Diary entry no date || || Remittance home, notes on commencement of war || Diary entry no date || Diary || || Diary entry no date || Diary || Addresses, notes on demolition || || Last page, largely indecipherable || Diary || Diary entry no date || || Official document || Birth Certificate || || Official document || Recruit's Identity Slip || || Demob Document Cover || Official document || || Official document || Demob Account || || Identity Certificate || Official document || || Official document || Transfer to Reserve || || Pension Award || Official document || || Pension Certificate || Official document || || Pension Certificate || Back || Official document || || Official document || Pension Stopped

Photograph of the crew of Theseus: Arthur marked with cross just on the right shoulder of the middle soldier lying down. Photocopy of diary kept by Arthur and includes battles and dates. Gunnery and torpedo history Sheet. Certificate of service. Medals. Certificate of identity. Tobacco box Christmas 1914 (Princess Mary's Christmas gift to the troops). || Arthur Rainey was the grandfather of the contributor, Kenneth Duesbery. He tried to join the Navy aged 15, but was brought back home by his mother. He joined legally on 20th August 1903. He served with the crew of Theseus and was at Gallipolli from 18 August 1916. He survived the war and became a postman. || || Front || Arthur Rainey's certficate of identity, Royal Fleet Reserve, Class B || Official document || || Arthur Rainey || Arthur Rainey's gunnery and torpedo history sheet || Form for qualifications obtained: gunnery school record and other examinations in gunnery and torpedo. There are no details of qualifications or examinations entered. || Poem || || Includes battles and dates. The contributor called it the Gallipoli diary and says that Arthur was in Gallipoli from 18th August 1916. The first entry is 7th August, so the diary probably starts in 1916. Some of the writing is also difficult to read, and it has been digitized from a photocopy, so some of the images are faint. || Diary || Arthur Rainey's Gallipoli diary 1916 || Arthur Rainey - Gallipoli diary || || Crew of Theseus || Naval Warfare || Back of image reads My father Arthur Rainey. Front second row, fourth from left with Crew of Theseus.\n Contributor said Arthur marked with cross just on the right shoulder of the middle soldier lying down. || Photograph of the crew of Theseus || Front || Photograph || || Arthur Rainey's certificate of service in the Royal Navy || Official document || Arthur Rainey || || This is an example of the brass tobacco box that was Princess Mary's Christmas gift to the troops in 1914. She was the George V's seventeen year old daughter. It was inscribed. Impericum Britannicum with the monogram MM (for Mary) across the front, and with roundels inscribed with the allies' names: Belgium, Japan, Russia, Montenegro, Servia and France. || Arthur Rainey || Memorabilia || Tobacco box issued to the troops, Christmas 1914 || Gallipoli Front || || Arthur Rainey's medals || Set of three medals. || Medal || Arhtur Rainey

The diary entries are reproduced with no editorial excisions. They were written in Pitman’s shorthand, in small pocket diaries, and have been completely transcribed (for the first time in 100 years) by his son || Arthur L. Linfoot (ALL), who volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1915, left diaries comprising an entry for every day from 1 January 1914 to 31 December 1918. Starting from 1 January 2014, each diary entry will appear on-line at http://www.arthurlinfoot.org.uk/ on the evening of the day 100 years exactly after the day to which it refers.