{"id":19,"date":"2014-08-05T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.com\/rsm-beck-diary\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2014-09-02T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:47:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project"},"content":{"rendered":"

World War One diaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Diaries,<\/a>

Diaries, letters and photographs from the Beck Family of Portland archive. DHC ref: D-1820<\/p><\/div>\n

The Dorset History Centre<\/a> (DHC) is making the diaries of a WW1 soldier freely available online. At the outbreak of the Great War, George Beck<\/a> was a Quarter-Master Sergeant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and he started to keep a diary of his time in the trenches. Starting from 21st August, each diary entry will appear on this blog 100 years after it was written.<\/p>\n

DHC holds three diaries written by Beck over the course of WW1. His writing chronicles several major battles, the Christmas Truce of 1914 and the first time gas was used in the trenches in May 1915.<\/p>\n

The diaries were deposited at DHC by Beck\u2019s granddaughter, along with his service book, certificates and letters (DHC ref: D-1820). The diary entries are reproduced in their entirety, without editing. They were written in small pocket diaries, and have been completely transcribed by volunteers at DHC, allowing them to be made available online. Volunteer Alison Schwalm has thoroughly enjoyed transcribing Beck’s diaries:<\/p>\n

It has been a privilege to transcribe these diaries written by a courageous professional soldier, an NCO who obviously cared greatly for his comrades as well as his young family at home. What a stark contrast between his account of survival in the battlefields of France and Belgium and the occasional leave to Portland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As well as posting the full diary entries on our blog, we will be \u2018live\u2019 tweeting entries from Beck\u2019s diaries a century after he wrote them. Follow the tweets @RSM_GBeck<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

About Dorset History Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dorset History Centre<\/a> in Dorchester is the archive service for Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole. It holds 1000 years of the county\u2019s written history held within many thousands of varied collections \u2013 the \u2018raw materials of history\u2019.<\/p>\n

Access to archive and local studies collections is free on-site. Many of our most important family history sources, including parish registers and wills, are now available online via www.ancestry.co.uk. <\/a>See our research guidance<\/a> for advice in discovering the history of your family, house or local area.<\/p>\n

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