Item 1915b - Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1915 (August - December)

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JCPP/Brittain/1/1915b

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Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1915 (August - December)

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  • 19 August 1915 - 31 December 1915 (Creation)

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1 volume, paper

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Brittain, Frederick (1893-1969), Fellow and Keeper of Records of Jesus College
(1893 - 1969)

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Diary entries are written in German script.

On the first page is a list of daily mileage outward and homeward.

The diary entries cover a two week physical training period at Southampton after which FB joined the hospital ship 'Egypt'. His duties included feeding patients, dressing wounds, and assisting during surgery. He travelled to Alexandria, Malta, many ports in the Mediterranean and across the channel to France.

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