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Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks

Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease of Victoria to his brother Lindley Crease and his mother Sarah Crease; instructions for the offensive of July 26, 1917; a regimental notebook, diaries and scrapbook. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-0055BC Archives MS-2879

 

 

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Sund 10th Sept Ch. Parade. Misty. Got ready for front line. Marched out with my platoon at 2:30 & after long walk got into our support trench at 7:30. Heavy shelling with H.E. of large calibre. Very hot in [illegible]. Soldier's vote taken.

Mond 11th Sept Heavy shelling all the time. No casualties in 24 hours to any platoon. CO buried by shell & had to be carried out. At night took working part into No Man's land. Did our work under intense enemy barrage. Lost my platoon serg't David Gillespie & Capt Kenneth Taylor DSO. No casualties among men under my immediate [illegible]. My command left ½ Co & rec'd special letter of approval from CO. After getting lost on way back got in to my trench at 3 am after the most strenuous day of my experience. Intense shelling with heavy stuff all the way in. Shelled with tear shells about dawn & one man gassed. (Three of our officers Reynolds, Guinness & Wolferton got military crosses for this work.)

BC Archives, MS-2879 Box 82 File 2 / CREASE FAMILY / Diary of Arthur Douglas Crease, 1915 - 1917.

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