Diary of 5 Dreadful Days when we lost Zonnebeke, by Lt Col RGA Hamilton | 18-22 October 1914 | Episode 42
Published on 18 October 1914
Lt Col Hamilton, Master of Belhaven, was an officer of the Royal Artillery during the First Battle of Ypres. His intensely vivid diary was written from day to day in the field. We read an extract which describes the fierce fighting that led to the fall of Zonnebeke near Ypres, in October 1914, and a spy hunt in which Lt Col Hamilton took part.