Typescript copy diary of Thomas Walter White, November 1915-December 1918

White, Thomas Walter (Captain, b.1888 - d.1957)

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Places	Middle East: Iraq, Baghdad Middle East: Iraq, Mosul Middle East: Mesopotamia Middle East: Ottoman Empire Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Afion Kara Hissar Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Istanbul Middle East: Syria, North Syria, Aleppo Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number	RCDIG0001332
Collection number	2DRL/0766
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	File
Item count	1
Object type	Typescript
Physical description	154 Image/s captured
Maker	White, Thomas Walter
Place made	Mesopotamia
Date made	1915-1919
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.

Description

Typescript diary relating to the captivity, during the First World War, of Captain Thomas Walter White, Mesopotamian Half Flight, Australian Flying Corps. In this diary kept between, November 1915 -December 1918, White details his capture near Baghdad, his arrival at Afion Kara Hissar camp, Turkey, via Mosul and Aleppo and his escape from the Turks. He writes about the conditions and treatment that he and other prisoners endured during captivity. Throughout White’s diary he records plays and theatre scripts and sports that he participated in, the price of food and snippets of war news. He describes the landscape and cultures he sees during his imprisonment and records fellow prisoner’s captures and exploits. Due to the small nature of White’s writing, some parts of the copy might not be true to the original.