War Diaries

Transcribed WW1 War Diaries:

Below is the set of war diaries that have been fully or partially transcribed and are available on this website:

  1. 1/9th Battalion Manchester Regiment. 1915.
  2. 1/9th Battalion Manchester Regiment. 1916.
  3. 1/9th Battalion Manchester Regiment. 1917.
  4. HM HT Guildford Castle. 1915.
  5. 42nd (East Lancashire) Division: Asst. Dir. of Medical Services, Gallipoli 1915.

Transcribed Personal Diaries & Letters:

Below are a small number of personal diaries and collections of letters that have been transcribed:

  1. Lt. Charles Earsham Cooke’s personal diary covering his time at Gallipoli.
  2. 2/Lt. Albert Edward (Ned) Stringer’s letters home from Egypt & Gallipoli.
  3. Sgt. Noel Duncan Braithwaite’s Egypt 1914 -15 Journal.
  4. Cpl. Thomas Valentine’s Egypt & Gallipoli Journal.
  5. Chaplain 4th Class, Reverend Kenneth Best’s Letters from Egypt & Gallipoli.

Transcribed Book Excerpts:

Additionally, the following book excerpts have been transcribed and are available.

  1. The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, 1914-1918, by Frederick P.
    Gibbon. [1920].
  2. Military operations : Gallipoli. Vol. 2, May 1915 to the evacuation.
    by Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander; A F Becke.