Private Walter Hutchinson witnessed the bloody carnage as he sat in waterlogged trenches waiting to go "over the top" and jotted it all down in his pocket diary. The poignant record - which ...

LONDON — On Jan. 1, 1917, a young man from Lancashire started a diary. It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old — Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw — happened to be a ...

A World War One rifleman's harrowing pocket diary details the solemn reality of life fighting on the frontline. Rifleman Timothy Elliott went over the top with the 9th Battalion City of London ...

The National Archives has begun the mammoth task of digitising 1.5 million WW1 diary pages ... by the books and papers he had in his breast pocket. You can see the holes in the documents from ...

Excerpts from a diary written on the frontline during World War One are being published online ... WW1 soldier diaries published online. Published. 14 January 2014. Son's war letter 98-year delivery.

Extracts from the pocket diary of Private Walter Hutchinson from the first four days of the Battle of the Somme in 1917 "On Saturday July 1st we set off for the trenches about 10 o'clock.

Robert Hall reports. WW1 soldier diaries published online. Video, 00:02:18WW1 soldier diaries published online Up Next. WW1 U-boat visible in river Medway. Video, 00:01:31WW1 U-boat visible in ...

A South Australian RSL is searching for answers after a diary dating back more than a century was left at its doorstep earlier this week. The diary belonged to a merchant seaman who served during WW1.

Davis, a 21-year-old seamstress and freeborn black woman living in Philadelphia, was jotting down her feelings about the event that came to be known as Jubilee Day in one of three pocket diaries ...