10.5287/BODLEIAN6LS3.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Pocket Diary 1917
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
1917-07-08/1917-08-05
2011-12-01 00:02:29.643785
2011
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Notebook
This pocket diary belonging to Edmund Blunden relates the experiences of the northern section of the battle of Passchendaele, near the Yser Canal. The attack began on 31 July 1917, and this diary, while incomplete, has sections describing the period between 8 July and 5 August 1917. The experience was later made into a narrative by Blunden and recast as 'The Crash of the Pillars' section of 'Undertones of War' (1928).These pages contain entries for Thursday 12 and Friday 13 July when Blunden was in camp and then at Houlle, and describe the romance of a nearby church and chateau, and a practice attack.