A Hull Sergeant’s

 

GREAT  WAR

 

Diary

 

 

 

 

This account of his experiences of the war in

German East Africa and

France was recorded by

Joseph Daniel Fewster (‘Dan’)

of 23 Beverley Road, Hull.

 

He served with the 1^st. (Hull) Heavy Battery R.G.A.

which later split into the

11^th. and 13^th. (Hull) Siege Batteries

 and later still was re-mustered as the

545 (Hull) Siege Battery, RGA for service in France.

 

 

Annotated by his grandson, Denis Fewster Hopkin of Hull

who served with the

 307 Field Regiment, East African Artillery

during the Second World War

 

 

 

 

 

Transferred to computer disk and edited

by Robert B. Sylvester

1999

 

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The following e-mail was received in August 2009:

John Hopkin

... You might like to know that an updated version of the diary, including many corrections as well supporting documents, photographs, genealogical information, etc, is now available here:

http://www.jfhopkin.karoo.net/DanFewster/