Pocket diary of Lt Ernest Ambler, 1916.
Covers the service of Lt Ernest Ambler with 1st Bn, Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), 1 Mar 1916 to 1 Jan 1917.
Lt Ambler applied to join the Royal Flying Corps as an observer and served with 22 Sqn between 1 Aug 1916 and 7 Sep 1916 when he was shot down and wounded.
From a collection of papers relating to the career of Maj Ernest Ambler, Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), Royal Flying Corps, as a prisoner of war, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), and his service with the West Yorkshire Regiment Depot, during World War Two (1939-1945).