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Accession Number | RCDIG0000228 |
Collection number | 1DRL/0257 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 1 |
Object type | Diary |
Physical description | 128 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Edgerton, Eric Henry Drummond |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
Date made | 1915-1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Typed copy of diary for Eric Henry Drummond Edgerton, 1915-1918
Description
Typed copy of diary relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Eric Henry Drummond Edgerton, MM, DSO, 24th Battalion. The original diary was written by Eric Edgerton between 5 January 1915 and 11 August 1918. In the diary, Edgerton comments on his daily activities in Australia, the voyage aboard the Ceramic, his military promotions and the fighting at Gallipoli and in France.