Notebook containing a detailed manuscript diary kept by Capt Henry Spencer Cardew, whilst serving as a Signal Officer with 6th Indian Division, 5 Dec 1915 to 23 Jan 1916.
Includes descriptions and sketch plans of the course of the Siege of Kut.
From a collection of manuscript diaries and other papers relating to the service of Lt Col Henry Spencer Cardew, MC, 1/39th Garhwalis, as a  Signals Officer with 34th Signal Company, 6th (Poona) Division in Mesopotamia, September 1915- April 1916 and his subsequent captivity after the capture at Kut al Amara.
Associated with the Battle of Es Sinn (1915), the Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) and the Siege of Kut (1915-1916), World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918) and World War One, POWs (1914-1918).