Record Number: 31895

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Shrapnel and pieces of shell were falling all about us and we expected every minute to be our last ... It was a rotten half hour ... During this bombardment a London Telegram was handed round. It stated that about forty thousand Welsh miners were on strike for more pay. They all ought to be hung. Fancy them out on strike while their countrymen are enduring what we were having at that moment, and it was all for their sake as well as our own. The irony of it struck us all.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

3 Sep 1915

Country:

Turkey

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Gallipoli

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Horace Bruckshaw

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

28 Jun 1891

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Private, Plymouth Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Royal Naval Division; Trainee manager

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Turkey

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

London Telegram

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31895

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Martin Middlebrook

Title:

The Diaries of Private Horace Bruckshaw 1915-1916

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1979

Vol:

n/a

Page:

76

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Martin Middlebrook (ed.), The Diaries of Private Horace Bruckshaw 1915-1916, (London, 1979), p. 76, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31895, accessed: 02 June 2024

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Additional Comments:

None