1. Intro

The war diaries have been transcribed from photocopies of the original war diaries obtained from the National Archive. Every effort has been made to transcribe the work verbatim, however, it must be recognised that the documents were hand-written and had faded prior to reproduction making some entries difficult to read. Any unrecognised words are shown as '?'

National Archive documents covered: WO 95/401/3, WO 95/401/4, WO 95/401/5 and WO 95/401/6

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4. Copyright

This work is a transcription of original documents owned by the National Archive who own the copyright to the original documents. Because this is a transcription of the originals then the copyright belongs to the transcriber.

Some pages are direct copies of the originals but they do not make up more than 5% of the total and are attributed where used.

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The National Archive - for securing the original documents for research purposes.

www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-corps-of-royal-engineers-in-the-first-world-war/the-special-companies-of-the-royal-engineers-poison-gas/ - general info on the use of poison gas in WW1.

www.greatwarforum.org - a forum that discusses member's queries regarding WW1. Special thanks to Terry Reeves for providing valuable info.

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6. Oh and the author

I am the grandson of Sergeant Herbert Jagger who served in 'J' Special Company Royal Engineers in The Great War. He is mentioned in the diaries, type 'Jagger' in the search box and read his entry. He didn't get the medal !

Any queries, contact me by email: chrisj1_98@yahoo.com