LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alec riley

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  • Netley Diary 1915-1916
    Alec Riley
    'I was after all the experiences I could collect, and wanted to know what a great military hospital was like ... I had to go to one, and decided on the grand style of doing it.'Corporal Alec Riley was a signaller in the British Army’s 42nd (East Lancashire) Division who served at Gallipoli in 1915. Four months on the peninsula left him debilitated, suffering nine septic sores a...
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  • Egypt Diary 1914-1915
    Alec Riley
    'From a ground-floor room at the end of one block shone a light. It came from a canteen. I saw others were busy while I was lowering a pint of shandy. I was so dry that I could not taste it-I could only just feel it. We felt better. Where there was beer there was hope.'Alec Riley was a signaller in the British Army’s 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. Egypt Diary 1914-1915 tells ...
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  • Gallipoli Diary 1915
    Alec Riley
    'We had a look around, through periscopes, at the remains of recent fighting. The dead were on top, and we, the living, were below the general ground-level. The usual order of life and death were reversed.'So wrote Alec Riley in his account of an ordinary soldier in an extraordinary conflict, the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. A signaller with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, ...
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