Why did soldiers keep diaries?
Why did soldiers keep diaries? Like civilians, members of the military kept diaries to fight off boredom and to record the day's events. They wrote to capture the sights and sounds of what the writer was experiencing far away from home and to cope with loneliness and fear. Where are war diaries kept? War diaries are still kept by the armed services to this day, and historical war diaries such as these are still referred to. The war diaries are arranged by operational theatre (front) first, then by GHQ, then Army, then Corps, then division, then by the units within...