Manuscript relating to Donald Dunbar Coutts 1916-1920

Coutts, Donald Dunbar (Major, b.1890 - d.1975)

Places	Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Menin Road Europe: Belgium, Wallonie, Namur, Walcourt Europe: France, Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Lille, Armentieres Europe: France, Paris Europe: France, Picardie, Buire Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Villers-Bretonneux Area, Villers-Bretonneux Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Bray Proyart Area, Ribemont Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Corbie Albert Area, Millencourt Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Mont St Quentin Europe: United Kingdom, England Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London Europe: United Kingdom, England, Wiltshire, Tidworth
Accession Number	RCDIG0001350
Collection number	PR83/155
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	File
Item count	1
Object type	Manuscript
Physical description	230 Image/s captured
Maker	Cliff, Marjorie A Coutts, Donald Dunbar
Place made	Australia, Belgium, France, United Kingdom
Date made	1916-1920
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.

Description

Manuscript relating to the service, during the First World War, of Major Donald Dunbar Coutts, 6th Australian Field Ambulance. The diary within the manuscript covers Coutts’ the period of 1916-1920 and details the towns he travels through and marches between camps. He gives accounts of the battles he served such as Menin Road and he describes the effects of an artillery barrage on his pill box. Coutts writes of the effects of gas and treatments for trench foot and mentions the sensation of shrapnel knocking off his helmet in March 1918. Additional contextual information has been added. This includes photographs, notes, souvenirs, battalion orders, instructions, maps, war diary reports, a citation for his DSO, articles from the "Red Diamond", autographed menus, Christmas cards and biographical information related to the award of his MBE.