Diary
- Date:
- 1917-1918
- Reference:
- MS.8039/2
- Part of:
- Crompton, Private Richard Ernest (b.1874)
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Diary, continuation of MS.8039/1, 44ff, 3 Jun 1917- 6 Oct 1918 (hardly any entries after 14 May 1918). Includes two photographs pasted inside front cover: Crompton in civilian clothes with two small girls, presumably his daughters, onto which a small photograph of an adult woman, perhaps his late wife, has been pasted, and photograph of 3 small girls.
Publication/Creation
1917-1918
Physical description
1 notebook
Biographical note
On 5 Sep 1917 (f 15) Crompton was in a gas attack and suffered adverse effects. He was shipped back to the UK where he spent the rest of the War.