Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (62)

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".本手稿为兰开夏燧发枪团第1/8营A连、第42东兰开夏师的亚瑟·斯内普（Arthur Snape）列兵所留存的笔记册，其人被认定为狙击手（sniper）。该笔记册包含多类素材，涵盖斯内普本人的行动轨迹与参与过的作战行动记录。他曾参与1915年的达达尼尔（Dardanelles）战役，1915年后期前往马耳他，1916至1917年间驻留埃及，最终于1917年抵达法国。笔记册中还提及加利波利（Gallipoli）、苏弗拉湾（Suvla Bay）与澳新军团（Anzac）相关内容。斯内普的记述分布于笔记册的多个章节，但各章节均为连贯叙事，这表明其更可能是一篇回顾性回忆录，而非逐日记录的日记。笔记册最长的章节占据了本书后半部分的大部分篇幅：开篇始于斯内普1915年5月27日的入伍记录，终止于其所属师于1917年3月3日（日期存疑）离开埃及前往法国之时。此外，笔记册中还包含训练课程笔记（训练科目涵盖狙击、营地警卫指令与爆破训练）、截至1915年12月11日的达达尼尔战役伤亡统计、一份收支清单，以及两首诗歌：其一开篇为"Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles"，另一首题为《帝国》（Empire）。