Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (47)

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".

本数据集为兰开夏燧发枪兵团第1/8营A连、第42东兰开夏师的亚瑟·斯内普列兵（Arthur Snape）留存的手记，其身份据信为狙击手。该手记包含多样内容，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年的达达尼尔战役（Dardanelles campaign），1915年后期前往马耳他，1916至1917年转战埃及，最终于1917年抵达法国。手记中还提及加里波利（Gallipoli）、苏夫拉湾（Suvla Bay）与澳新军团滩（Anzac）等地。斯内普的记述分布在手记的多个章节中，但各章节均为连贯叙事，暗示其更可能为回顾性回忆录而非逐日撰写的日记。手记后半部分的主体篇幅最长：开篇为斯内普1915年5月27日的入伍记录，截至其所在师于1917年3月3日[?]离开埃及开赴法国之时。此外手记还包含训练课程笔记（训练科目涵盖狙击、营地岗哨指令与爆破作业）、截至1915年12月11日的达达尼尔战役伤亡统计、一份薪酬清单，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"，其二题为《帝国》（Empire）。