Reginald Aslin was just 15 when he visited the battlefields of France during the Great War. Why he undertook this trip we shall never know as the diary laid undiscovered until after his death in 1979.
But, together with this diary was his original Passport with all the signatures and endorsements mentioned in his account and this together gives us an extraordinary insight into life behind the Front Line in 1915 through the eyes of a schoolboy, some of whose contemporaries were also seeing all the horror that is war close-up.
The diary recounts his week long trip through to Abbeville and on to Paris accompanied by his uncle, Daniel Jarman, who was going to see his brother William Jarman, serving with the Royal Engineers in France.
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