{"id":1555,"date":"2017-08-28T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2017-08-28T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T09:06:59","slug":"1918-soldiers-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/news\/1918-soldiers-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1918 Soldier&#8217;s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1542\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/image-details-1918-diary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1542\" class=\"wp-image-1542 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diary-cover-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"1918 Soldier's Diary cover\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diary-cover-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diary-cover-768x1081.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diary-cover-732x1030.jpg 732w, http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diary-cover-1066x1500.jpg 1066w, http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diary-cover-501x705.jpg 501w, http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diary-cover-450x633.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/diary-cover.jpg 1842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Hargreaves&#8217; 1918 Soldier&#8217;s Diary<br \/>(Courtesy of Andrew Whittham and Jo Birtwhistle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amongst the material made available to the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers project is a 1918 Soldiers\u2019 Diary belonging to Private Harry Hargreaves, of 1\/5 battalion West Riding Regiment.<\/p>\n<p>The diary measures about 7 x 11cm \u2013 small enough to fit into the pocket of a military uniform; the cover is made of card and the inside pages of very thin paper.\u00a0 The entries were written in pencil, in Harry\u2019s own small (and sometimes, after 100 years, difficult to read) handwriting.\u00a0 All are very concise and include an almost day-by-day account of the weather \u2013 even in the days immediately after he had been wounded.\u00a0 It is entirely fitting that the final entry in the diary should be a comment on the weather.<\/p>\n<p>The entries run from January 1<sup>st<\/sup> to October 23<sup>rd<\/sup> 1918 and record the final months of Harry Hargreaves\u2019 service in France, which began in June 1916.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/WW1 articles\/Article - Harry Hargreaves 1918 diary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article &#8211; Harry Hargreaves&#8217; 1918 diary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the material made available to the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers project is a 1918 Soldiers\u2019 Diary belonging to Private Harry Hargreaves, of 1\/5 battalion West Riding Regiment. 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