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Diaries & accounts of the soldiers.
Benjamin Joseph COX
C. J. DAVIS
Reginald Cuthbert GRIFFITHS
Ronald HARE
- diary of service (before his medical training) with the 2/25 London Cyclist Battalion, 1918
Wellcome Library - PP/HAR
Maurice JACOBS
Harry PARKER
Edgar PHILLIPS
William J. STRANGE
Anonymous
- Imperial War Museum - Cat. ref. : 10461 Misc 11 (225)
Anonymous ms diary (16pp) of a soldier serving in the 1/25th Battalion London Regiment (London Cyclists) en route for India, 5 January - 9 March 1917, describing their voyage from Plymouth with an armed escort via Sierra Leone, Durban, Bombay to Risalpin, India, while providing good details of life on board ship, the insanitary conditions, fever, meagreness of food and rations, and the sole distractions of porpoises and marine life.
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