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Ts memoirs (39pp) describing his experiences in the 7th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (56th Brigade, 19th Division) including being commissioned in September 1914 via Rugby OTC, joining the Battalion at Tidworth Camp, their training, embarking for France in July 1915, entering the line with units of the Lahore Division, going south to the Somme where as a company commander he led an attack on 2 July near La Boisselle being wounded and evacuated to King Edward VII's Hospital, London, a period with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion in Plymouth before rejoining his Battalion on the Ancre clearly highlighting the different attitude of officers in England to those in France, moving briefly to Wytschaete in 1917 before going to the HQ of the 56th Brigade as a Staff Learner, being sent to command a rearguard party on 26/26 March 1918 near Achiet-le-Grand during the first part of the German Spring Offensive, then joining the 6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (also 56th Brigade) as temporary Commanding Officer, their isolation and distant withdrawal during the Battle of the Lys in April, his reposting in May first as Staff Captain, 58th Brigade and then Brigade Major, 57th Brigade, learning of the Armistice in Malplaquet and finally helping to organise the Brigade's demobilization.
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Ts memoirs (39pp) describing his experiences in the 7th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (56th Brigade, 19th Division) including being commissioned in September 1914 via Rugby OTC, joining the Battalion at Tidworth Camp, their training, embarking for France in July 1915, entering the line with units of the Lahore Division, going south to the Somme where as a company commander he led an attack on 2 July near La Boisselle being wounded and evacuated to King Edward VII's Hospital, London, a period with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion in Plymouth before rejoining his Battalion on the Ancre clearly highlighting the different attitude of officers in England to those in France, moving briefly to Wytschaete in 1917 before going to the HQ of the 56th Brigade as a Staff Learner, being sent to command a rearguard party on 26/26 March 1918 near Achiet-le-Grand during the first part of the German Spring Offensive, then joining the 6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (also 56th Brigade) as temporary Commanding Officer, their isolation and distant withdrawal during the Battle of the Lys in April, his reposting in May first as Staff Captain, 58th Brigade and then Brigade Major, 57th Brigade, learning of the Armistice in Malplaquet and finally helping to organise the Brigade's demobilization.
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History note
Catalogue date 1988-11