Ts. transcripts of the WWI diaries of F.Edmonds.

Contains one black leather bound notebook used by Frederick Arthur Edmonds as a diary. The notebook is ruled, contains some numbered pages, and opens lengthwise. Entries are dated and sporadic, are written in pencil, and include a chart of the names of soldiers from the 16th Platoon, with their identification number, rank, age, marital status, date of arrival in France, religion, next of kin, trade, and courses. Includes a loose leaf of paper in the front pocket of the notebook, and several blank pages. The diary entries are titled "My diary since leaving the 'Ypres Salient'", and detail the movement of troops, destinations, times leaving and arriving places, encampments, training progress, weather, distances from place to place in kilometres, locations of battles, places billeted, conditions in the trenches, descriptions of battles, objectives, conditions, attacks, general notes about casualties, tanks, mines, and descriptions of Edmonds' stay in the Paris Plaz hospital and Le Havre hospital. The diary goes up until just before Vimy Ridge, when Edmonds is invalided home.

Contains one notebook, black leather bound, opens lengthwise, ruled pages. Entries are written in pencil and ink, are sporadic, only sometimes dated, and include details of a cross-ocean boat trip taken in 1913, addresses of relatives and acquaintances, German vowels and their English equivalents, with a German phrase translated into English, and extensive notes on wine-making from 1931.

Contains one green cloth-bound notebook used by Frederick Arthur Edmonds as a diary. The diary has unumbered ruled pages and opens lengthwise. The entries are in pencil, with some dated entries, but mostly notes about training camp and attack plans. Includes a drawing of an attack plan, and names of soldiers, as well as several blank pages.

Contains one brown cloth and leather bound notebook with graph paper pages. Some pages are numbered. Entries are sporadic, written in in pencil, and are dated. Includes lists of Platoon members, their identification numbers, and whether they were wounded or killed, as well as contact addresses for Edmonds' family and friends. The diary entries detail such things as activities at camp, destinations, progress of battles, names of relieving troops, and where the troops were billeted.

Fonds consists of four notebooks kept by Frederick Arthur Edmonds as diaries as well as a typed transcript. The notebooks include details regarding Edmonds' experiences during WWI.