Edward Thomas: War Diary
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| Author | Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) |
|---|---|
| Title | War Diary: Page 18 |
| Notes | The weather is too hazy to make observation possible and Thomas spends his time in the dug-out censoring letters and on guns Thomas notes the surrounding landscape and wildlife and comments on the local women hanging up clothes to dry on the barbed wire. Goes to Arras to begin showing sectors and arcs on 1/10000 maps. |
| Item Date | 16th February 1917 - 19th February 1917 |
| Creation place | Dainville, France (Google Maps) |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Notebook |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Pen |
| Content | Diary |
| Item height | 132 |
| Item width | 76 |
| Page | 17 of 34 |
| Collection ID | Edward Thomas War Diary |
| Repository name | Thomas Family Private Collection |
| Cataloguer | Kate Lindsay and Everett Sharp |
| Filename | ETFAMDIA-26.jpg |
| Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/1693/1375 |
Document description
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| Author | Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) |
|---|---|
| Title | Edward Thomas: War Diary |
| Notes | This is the private diary kept by Edward Thomas the last three months as a soldier. It is written in a small Walker's Back-Loop pocket-book, bound in pigskin and priced at two shillings. The cover and the pages are concaved and creased suggesting that he was carrying the diary when he was killed at an observation post on the 9th April 1917 by a shell blast during the opening barrage of the Battle of Arras. The diary was given to his son Merfyn and rediscovered by his son Edward in 1970 amongst various papers and documents belonging to his father. |
| Item Date | 1st January 1917 - 8th April 1917 |
| Creation place | England and France |
| File type | Compound Object |
| Item source | Notebook |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Pen |
| Content | Diary |
| Item height | 132 |
| Item width | 76 |
| Repository name | Thomas Family Private Collection |
| Cataloguer | Kate Lindsay and Everett Sharp |
| Copyright | The Edward Thomas Literary Estate |
| Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/1693 |
