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- 1918 (Creation)
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Manuscript diary of service with 2 Life Guards, Western Front, including: Graham’s personal impression of Winston Churchill, 25 Feb 1918; orders that the Household Cavalry was to be converted into Machine Gun Battalions [2 Life Guards became 2 Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment], Mar 1918; the Allied reaction to the German spring offensive, Mar 1918; machine gun training, Apr-May 1918; marriage to Lady Evelyn King while on leave in London, 17 Jun 1918; the Allied Hundred Days Offensive, Aug-Oct 1918; Battle of the Hindenburg Line, Sep 1918; Second Battle of Cambrai, Oct 1918; Armistice, 11 Nov 1918. Written in a Frank Smythson leather-bound ‘Premier’ diary.
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