Edward Thomas: War Diary
Item
Title
Edward Thomas: War Diary
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Identifier
1702.cpd
Creator
Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)
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Abstract
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.
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.
Date
1st January 1917 - 8th April 1917
Date Created
1917-01-01
Temporal Coverage
1917-04-08
Spatial Coverage
England and France
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Source
Notebook
Medium
Paper
Format
Pen
Type
Diary
Contributor
Kate Lindsay and Everett Sharp
Publisher
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Subject
Allied Forces
Landscape
Somme