Item 1916 - Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1916

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Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1916

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  • 1916 (Creation)

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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. There is a transcript on each page in another hand [Muriel Brittain's].

On the first page is a list of books read during the year.

Diary entries cover his duties on board the Egypt feeding patients and dressing their wounds. They sailed to Salonica, Valetta, Algiers, Alexandria and Bombay. Also describes his shore leave, languages he was learning, visits home to South Minns, writing for the ship magazine The Egyptionian and on board entertainments in which FB took part.

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