Item GIBSON 2/1 - Gibson's diary of service with 15 Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, Western Front, 1915-1916

Personal diary of active service with 15 (Service) Bn, (1 Glasgow) Highland Light Infantry on the Western Front during World War One, notably a list of officers of the battalion; the movements of the battalion around the front line on the Somme, including names and descriptions of trenches, and the positions of battalion headquarters; training in preparation for the Battles of the Somme, July 1916, and Gibson's inability, through illness, to join his battalion in the initial attack (the Battle of Albert); description of the part played by 15 (Service) Bn, (1 Glasgow) Highland Light Infantry in the attack, with a list of killed and wounded; Gibson's removal from the unit due to illness, and transfer through various hospitals in France, culminating in his return to England on 28 Sep 1916; a visit to 2 Div, 4 Battle Squadron, of the British Grand Fleet, 7-12 Nov 1916; a medical board at Stobhill, followed by four weeks home service with 3 (Reserve) Bn, Highland Light Infantry at Edinburgh headquarters. 1 vol.