Item BARNARDISTON 3/3 - Personal diary, 1916, relating to service on the Western Front and in Portugal

Personal diary, covering both Barnardiston's command of 39 Div in France and the commencement of his post as Chief of the British Military Mission to Portugal. The entries are brief, and mainly concerned with appointments and meetings, but there are interesting descriptions, notably of the disposition of his troops just behind the Western Front; notes on artillery and mortar schools; the journey to Portugal; meetings with various named Portuguese political and military figures; inspections of Portuguese preparations for war, including troops, ships, ordnance and powder factories, supply depots, barracks and forts; visits to local beauty spots and entertainments; the arrival of an official Foreign Office note accepting an offer of a Portuguese division to fight on behalf of the Allies; a muted attempt at a revolution, which placed the country under martial law. Inserted is a cutting from a Portuguese newspaper. 1 vol.