Download or read book Private Papers of Captain H C L Heywood written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Photocopy of a soldiers journal compiled from edited extracts from his letters written while serving as a Lieutenant with the 1/6th Battalion Manchester Regiment (127th Infantry Brigade, 42nd Division) from May - December 1915. It describes: his embarkation in Egypt, the landing on 'W Beach', Cape Helles (6 May), his uncomfortable introduction to life under fire, the 2nd Battle of Krithia (May), being wounded, evacuated by hospital ship to Malta and England and his return to Lemnos (May - July) and Cape Helles (23 July), a costly attack (at which he was in command of a machine gun section) as a feint for the Suvla Bay landings (August), illness and repatriation via Malta and recuperation in England (September - December 1915). It gives excellent accounts of the hardships/relative pleasures of an officer's life on Gallipoli, in and out of the front line, his varying attitudes to death/carnage, his crises of conscience at leaving his unit on sick leave and criticisms of medical treatment, hospital ships and (with some praise also) of Australians, it also gives details of the fates of other officers of his Battalion and extracts from a printed copy of his Brigade Commander Brigadier General N Lee's May 1915 diary.