I am currently researching the Manchester regiment during the siege of Malta. Local archives in Malta don't have much to offer. However, it has come to my attention that the actual war diaries are available at the Tameside Local Studies & Archive Centre as well as the National archives in Kew. The former stated that they do not have "the equipment or time" to digitize them. Since I am from Malta, I cannot possibly visit the archive myself. This puts the future of these war diaries, the richest source for information on the 8th Battalion in Malta, in question.
I would like to ask if any members of this forum possess or are willing to make a digitized copy of these diaries for the sake of posterity and better research.
Nikolai.