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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- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
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- 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.
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- WWI
- Travel
- India
- Mesopotamia
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- Processed
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General Diary, 1.1.11 - 12.4.11, 5.5.11 - 3.4.12, 13.4.12 - 4.7.12, 7.11.12 - 13.4.13, 2.5.13 - 16.7.14, WAR, 9.12.19 - 9.4.20, 25.10.20 - 3.4.21, 20.10.21 - 14.4.22, 4.1.24 - 19.3.25, 24.3.26 - 16.3.32.
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- Part Of
- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
- Scope & Content
- Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 20, General Diary: 1911-1932. Daily diary sentences, with location and highlights of days, including church events, sports, dinners, surveying, war, mountaineering, golf, documentation of weather and wind speeds, t…
- Date Range
- 1911-1932
- Reference Code
- M169 / 20
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Part Of
- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Accession Number
- 7773
- Reference Code
- M169 / 20
- Date Range
- 1911-1932
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. textual record
- Scope & Content
- Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 20, General Diary: 1911-1932.
- Daily diary sentences, with location and highlights of days, including church events, sports, dinners, surveying, war, mountaineering, golf, documentation of weather and wind speeds, travel within India, list of shooting with location and item, from 1931-1932. Leave trips in previous diaries, which he directs the reader to. After 1921 diary entries are longer, and spread out.
- Chatham, Beaulieu, Dover, Scotland, Meerut, Delhi, Mussoorie, Nagal, Dehra Dun, Bombay, Raipur, Quetta, Kalat.
- Glued in photographs of "C" Construction Low, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Palmer, Bude Haven and Breakwater from Compass Point.
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1914 Gangotn 14.4.14 - 28.5.14. Diary No XII
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- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
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- Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 7, Apr. -May 1914 India Personal diary containing kit list, travel, extensive discussion of "coolies", hiking, mountaineering, dehydration, discussion of altitudes, several sketches of mountains, descriptions of nu…
- Date Range
- 1914
- Reference Code
- M169 / 7
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Part Of
- Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Accession Number
- 7773
- Reference Code
- M169 / 7
- Date Range
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. textual record
- Scope & Content
- Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 7, Apr. -May 1914 India
- Personal diary containing kit list, travel, extensive discussion of "coolies", hiking, mountaineering, dehydration, discussion of altitudes, several sketches of mountains, descriptions of numbered photos not present
- Peaks include: NagTibba ridge, Dharassu, Dounda, Kedarganga, Glacier No.1, Batwari
- Several pages stuck together throughout
- Summary and notes including weather, routes, kit, food, topography, costs, wages, remarks
- Subject Access
- Travel
- Mountaineering
- India
- Title Source
- Title taken from source
- Processing Status
- Processed
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