1915 - 1916 WAR. 11.11.15 -7.5.16 DIARY No XV
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- Part Of
- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
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- Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 9, Nov. 1915-May 1916 Mesopotamia Personal diary. Front cover indicates it should be mailed to Mrs. A. O. Wheeler in Sidney, BC, book is a Field Message Book, with graph paper and tear out pages, written in pencil …
- Date Range
- 1915-1916
- Reference Code
- M169 / 9
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Part Of
- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Accession Number
- 7773
- Reference Code
- M169 / 9
- Date Range
- 1915-1916
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. textual record
- Scope & Content
- Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 9, Nov. 1915-May 1916 Mesopotamia
- Personal diary. Front cover indicates it should be mailed to Mrs. A. O. Wheeler in Sidney, BC, book is a Field Message Book, with graph paper and tear out pages, written in pencil
- Weather descriptions, drills, Auchy-au-Boris, Marseilles, canal trip, Red Sea, first Christmas at sea, Magil, man shot himself in shoulder during march, Qalat Saleh, digging "Corps Trench", 'Orah, monitoring trench digging
- Page with drawings of boats pinned to page near middle, drawing of skyline, drawings of mahaila and ballam, diagrams of mullah, map Persia and Turkey in Asia, diagram of British trench, main camp,Turk Line, drawing of British flag on back inside cover
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1916 - 1917 - 1918 No XVI A WAR 8.5.16 - 6.8.16 No XVI B Sick Leave OOTY 7.8.16 - 19.10.16 XVII Shikar (Benaik) 22.5.17 - 20.6.17 XVIII WAR 18.10.17 - 23.3.18
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- Part Of
- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
- Scope & Content
- Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 10, 1916, 1917, 1918 Mesopotamia & India Personal diary. Front cover indicates it should be mailed to Mrs. A. O. Wheeler in Sidney, BC, book is a Field Message Book, with graph paper and tear out pages, written in …
- Date Range
- 1916-1918
- Reference Code
- M169 / 10
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Part Of
- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Accession Number
- 7773
- Reference Code
- M169 / 10
- Date Range
- 1916-1918
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. textual record
- Scope & Content
- Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 10, 1916, 1917, 1918 Mesopotamia & India
- Personal diary. Front cover indicates it should be mailed to Mrs. A. O. Wheeler in Sidney, BC, book is a Field Message Book, with graph paper and tear out pages, written in pencil.
- Diagrams for trench digging, platform diagram
- Weather conditions, daily routines, Sannaujuah, mentions of cholera, typhoid, diarrhea, fever, documentation of gradual onset of illness, sick leave in Amara, discussion of day to day illness and diet, leisure: golf, hockey, and dances, visit to St Mary's (1680) oldest British church in India
- Leave in May 1917 for 30 days, leisure, travel, mountaineering, hunting,
- Insert of list of the days in June and July with numbers, and average calculated. Temperature?
- Expenses Travelling list, Wages, Food
- Return to Mesopotamia 1917, travel, boat trip, preparation for leaving Busra, Amara, Kur, One Tree Camp Amara, thieves in Amara, Bagdad right bank, description of Kadhimain mosque, last pages at Fufa regarding a murder, pages following are ripped out.
- Subject Access
- WWI
- Travel
- India
- Mesopotamia
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- Title taken from source
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- Processed
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