Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Brittain/1/1914a
Title
Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1914
Date(s)
- 1914 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 volume, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Diary entries are written in German script. There is a transcript of the diary entries in another hand [Muriel Brittain's] on most pages.
4 October - 4 December - No diary entries.
1-8 June - FB visited Cambridge for the first time. He stayed with a fellow teacher and visited Trinity College, the Backs, David's bookstall, King's College Chapel and Ely Cathedral.
23 July - Left his job as a school master at the end of term.
10 August - Started work in the Civil service in the Accountant General's Department.
2 October - Got permission from the Service to enlist [joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was posted to the Second London General Military Hospital in Chelsea].