Photostat copy of diaries of Benjamin Bennett Leane, 1915-1916

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Accession Number RCDIG0001007
Collection number 1DRL/0412
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 1
Object type Diary
Physical description 304 Image/s captured
Maker Leane, Benjamin Bennett
Place made At sea, Egypt, United Kingdom: England, Western Front
Date made 1915-1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

Photostat copy of diaries relating to the First World War service of Major Benjamin Bennett Leane, 48th Infantry Battalion. This bound volume consists of three sequential diaries written in the form of letters to his wife and kept between 26 December 1915 and 27 November 1916. The diaries detail Leane's brief service with the Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt and later 48th Battalion in France. He provides a detailed description of the fighting at the front line on the Western Front, in particular at Pozieres and Mouquet Farm.