War Diaries (August 10) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for August 10
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Samuel H. Brown: August 10, 1917
Party gassed while coming to the line; was caught with pant down.
- Diary of Samuel Henry Brown (in the Digital Gallery)
Samuel Henry Brown was born in Clinton, Ontario in 1891, the youngest child of John and Mary Ann Brown. He served in the militia as a young man and later enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Private Brown sailed overseas in October 1916 and would see action on the Western Front with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and lost his life on August 20, 1917, after being seriously wounded during the Battle of Hill 70. Brown was 26 years old and is buried at the Étaples Military Cemetery in France.
Mister Park: August 10, 1943
I paid a total of 62 yen in dues to the Comfort Station Association, including thirty yen for myself and two yen for each of my sixteen comfort women.
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager (PDF) @ sdh-fact.com - diary written by a clerk who worked in Japanese military brothels, also known as "comfort stations", in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman known only as Mister Park, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.
See also Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager @ Wikipedia
