Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (51)

A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".

这本笔记本由东兰开夏第42师A连兰开夏郡燧发枪团第1/8营的列兵Arthur Snape所记，据信他曾是一名狙击手。笔记本包含各类内容，包括Snape本人的行动记录及参与的作战行动描述。他于1915年参加达达尼尔战役，1915年末驻于马耳他，1916至1917年在埃及，最终于1917年前往法国。笔记本中还提及加里波利、苏弗拉湾及澳新军团。

Snape的记述分散在笔记本的多个部分，但各部分均为连贯叙事，表明其可能是回顾性回忆录而非逐日记录的日记。最长的章节占据了笔记本后半部分的大部分篇幅：始于1915年5月27日Snape入伍，终于1917年3月[？]日其所在师从埃及开赴法国。此外，笔记本还包含训练课程记录（涵盖内容包括狙击、营地守卫命令及轰炸相关内容）、1915年12月11日前达达尼尔战役的伤亡记录、一份支付清单，以及两首诗歌——其中一首开篇为“这里有个故事，由一名士兵讲述/他曾参与那场著名的登陆/在达达尼尔的海岸”，另一首题为《帝国》。