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Diary of a Dispatch Rider

A blog by Banstead100 in General

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The 1918 diary of John Sangway, a dispatch rider who served on the Western Front with 'R' Corps (XVII Corps) Signals Company, Royal Engineers.

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25/3/18

The diary of John Sangway, a dispatch rider with XVII Corps. His signal company was headquartered at Duisans, 3 miles west of Arras, when the Germans launched their Spring offensive on 21st March 1918.   One tries to forget unpleasant experiences and at 4 days after I have almost lost my impressions of our first experience of the big offensive. Moreover one’s emotions are very elastic and one trembles with funk at 5.30am and jests cheerfully at 6, or more definitely is terrorised by a
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Introduction

John Douglas Sangway, a bank clerk from London, served as a dispatch rider on the Western Front from 1917 to 1919. He kept a diary of the final year of the war, starting in the days just after the great German offensive began in March 1918, and as we are now all locked down with nowhere to go and little else to do, I thought I'd get on with transcribing it and publish it here in instalments on the anniversary of each entry.   John was born in Marylebone on 17th December 1887 and was the elde
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