Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (70)

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团（Lancashire Fusiliers）第1/8营A连、第42东兰开斯特师（42nd East Lancashire Division）一等兵亚瑟·斯纳普（Arthur Snape）的随身战地笔记，其身份推测为狙击手。该笔记收录多类史料，涵盖斯纳普本人的行动轨迹与参与过的作战行动记录。他先后参与1915年达达尼尔海峡战役（Dardanelles campaign）、1915年后期的马耳他驻防、1916至1917年的埃及部署，最终于1917年调往法国。笔记中还提及加利波利（Gallipoli）、苏弗拉湾（Suvla Bay）与澳新军团（Anzac）相关战事。

斯纳普的叙述虽分散于笔记的多个章节，但各部分均为连贯完整的叙事，表明其更可能为事后撰写的回忆录，而非逐日留存的战地日记。笔记篇幅最长的章节占据了全书后半部分的主体内容：其起始为斯纳普1915年5月27日的入伍记录，终止于其所属师部于1917年3月3日（日期存疑）离开埃及前往法国的节点。

此外，笔记中还包含训练课程相关笔记（课程内容涵盖狙击战术、营地岗哨指令与手榴弹投掷训练）、截至1915年12月11日的达达尼尔海峡战役伤亡统计、薪酬发放清单，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）。