Thursday, December 29, 2011

Horror and banalities in captain’s First World War diaries - Local stories - Yorkshire Post

Review of a newly published diary.

Captain Hepper’s Great War Diary covers the period from January 1916 to January 1919 and deals mainly with his experiences of trench warfare with the 17th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment.

The personal account of Captain Raymond Hepper’s war details daily routines as well as times of fear and killing.

His son, Nigel Hepper, who has transcribed the diaries, said: “Much of a soldiers’ time was taken up waiting for action – and then getting too much all at once.”

Horror and banalities in captain’s First World War diaries - Local stories - Yorkshire Post

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