War Diaries (July 13) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for July 13.
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Frances Duberly: July 13, 1854
Thursday, 13th. – A long morning was spent in investigating the state of the horses by Colonel Shewell, Lord Cardigan, and Mr. Grey. I despatched letters to Captain Fraser, of the "Shooting Star," and Lady Duberly. A sad event closed this day. One of our sergeants, who had been ill for some days previously, left the hospital tent about three o'clock, A.M., and when our watering parade went down to the river, they found his body in the stream: he was quite dead. He was a steady and most respectable man: could he have had a foreboding of the lingering deaths of so many of his comrades, and so rashly have chosen his own time to appear before God? The band of the Connaught Rangers came at seven o'clock to play him to a quieter resting-place than the bed of the sparkling, babbling stream – a solitary grave dug just in front of our lines, and near enough for us, during our stay, to protect him from the dogs.
—Journal Kept During The Russian War, From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol - By Frances Isabella Locke Duberly, 1829-1903 / Mrs. Henry Duberly: British officer's wife accompanying the army.
George Beck: July 13, 1944
Arrived Lamsdorf 5pm ?????? searched and slept in ??? Handed 400 marks to be put in my credit. First time in the camp since 1940, what a change.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
