The war diary of a Flemish priest
Achiel Van Walleghem, a local Catholic priest residing in Dickebusch and Reninghelst, just west of Ypres, kept a diary from August 1914 up until a few years after the war. With an inquisitive eye and…
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The Diary of Alison Mullineaux
Extract and photograph from the diary of Alison Mullineaux, a Canadian woman who travelled to Europe and served as a nurse's aid in the French Service de Santé. Both the diary extract and the…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Gender; Diary
War Diary of Peter Buck
Page from the war diary of Peter Buck, one of the few Maori officers. The selected page, written at Armentières, describes the occasion of a Maori haka and how it was received.
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Themes: Race; Diary
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Anthropologist, Diary, France, Maori, Officer
Bei uns in Deutschland
Cover and extracts from Bei uns in Deutschland (Brussels, 1919), First World War memoirs of the Flemish author Ernest Claes, based on his time in a German POW camp in Erfurt.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Mobility; Memoirs; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Diary; Captivity
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Belgium, Camp, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, France, Germany, Memoir, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Soldiers, writer
British West Indies Regiment Diary
Published account of the arrival of the second contingent of the British West Indies Regiment. Published by The Daily Gleaner, a Jamaican newspaper.
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Gender; Diary
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West Indies
Swahili Notes of South African Private
Handwritten note from the back of a war diary by a white South African private who served in the East African campaign in 1916-17. It lists two dozen words in Swahili and their English translation.…
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