Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Brittain/1/1917
Title
Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1917
Date(s)
- 1917 (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 on each page in another hand [Muriel Brittain's].
On the first page is a list of books read during the year.
On the back pages are lists of letters sent and received during the year.
Diary entries cover his duties on board the Egypt feeding patients and dressing their wounds. They sailed to Alexandria, Cairo, Bombay, Persian Gulf, Zanzibar, , Mombasa, Cape Town and Suez. Also describes his shore leave, languages he was learning, writing for the ship magazine The Egyptionian and on board entertainments in which FB took part, including the ceremony for crossing the International Date line.