| Description | Includes daily entries, describing the journey to Egypt in December 1915, via Malta to defend the Suez Canel from possible for attack by the Turks, his leaving this posting at El Kantara in March 1916, his sailing to Marseille, via Alexandria, and his arrival at the village of Huppy, near the town of Abbeville. The diary ends with an account of his experiences in the trenches of the Western Front Also includes draft poems at the reverse of the volume, as well as a list of basic words and instructions with translations in Arabic. |