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Manuscript copy of a diary (25pp) kept by Captain Ivor Sainte Croix Rose, while serving with the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, covering his arrival at the battalion in the Ypres area (October 1914), experiences in action, taking of prisoners and relics, trench conditions, casualties, hospitalisation and return to England (November 1914), return to the Front (March 1915) in support at Givenchy, and visit by the Prince of the Wales to the front line, and his later hospitalisation and home command of the Clapham Bombing and Trench Mortar School (February 1916), his special mission to GHQ France in command of a trench mortar school (February - June 1916), and rejoining the 2nd, and then the 3rd Battalions Grenadier Guards at Heucourt before forming the Guards Division Works Battalion (December 1916). Associated with the Grenadier Guards, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

Ypres, 1st Battle of, 1914 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)