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Object description
Excellent word processed ts memoir (153pp plus appendices and illustrations) covering 1915 - 1918 and recording his service with the Machine Gun Section of the 13th Battalion Rifle Brigade (111th Brigade, 37th Division) on the Western Front, being briefly attached to the 34th Division for the Battle of the Somme (July - August 1916), describing his enlistment and training on Salisbury Plain, inspections by HM King George V, his embarkation for France (July 1915), relations with the French civilians, his journey to the front and service in the line at Hannescamps (September 1915), Berles-au-Bois (February 1916), La Boisselle (July 1916) and Calonne near Lens (September 1916), gas training and attacks, the workings of a machine gun section and trench warfare, his billets and living conditions, receiving news of his brother's death in action, patrols into No Man's Land and trench raids, Christmas celebrations, aerial warfare, communication with the Germans, recreational visits to estaminets and the cinema, involvement in the Battle of the Somme (July 1916), the devastation of the Somme battlefield at La Boisselle and the prevalence of corpses, going 'over the top' in an infantry attack, the hunting of rats, involvement in the Battle of the Ancre (November 1916) and the attack on Beaucourt during which he was wounded in the leg and evacuated by London bus and hospital train, his treatment in the 2nd Canadian General Hospital at Le Treport, before evacuation back to the United Kingdom (February 1917) for medical treatment in hospitals in London and Leeds, and then his transfer to the RAF (March 1918) for clerical duties in the UK.
Content description
Excellent word processed ts memoir (153pp plus appendices and illustrations) covering 1915 - 1918 and recording his service with the Machine Gun Section of the 13th Battalion Rifle Brigade (111th Brigade, 37th Division) on the Western Front, being briefly attached to the 34th Division for the Battle of the Somme (July - August 1916), describing his enlistment and training on Salisbury Plain, inspections by HM King George V, his embarkation for France (July 1915), relations with the French civilians, his journey to the front and service in the line at Hannescamps (September 1915), Berles-au-Bois (February 1916), La Boisselle (July 1916) and Calonne near Lens (September 1916), gas training and attacks, the workings of a machine gun section and trench warfare, his billets and living conditions, receiving news of his brother's death in action, patrols into No Man's Land and trench raids, Christmas celebrations, aerial warfare, communication with the Germans, recreational visits to estaminets and the cinema, involvement in the Battle of the Somme (July 1916), the devastation of the Somme battlefield at La Boisselle and the prevalence of corpses, going 'over the top' in an infantry attack, the hunting of rats, involvement in the Battle of the Ancre (November 1916) and the attack on Beaucourt during which he was wounded in the leg and evacuated by London bus and hospital train, his treatment in the 2nd Canadian General Hospital at Le Treport, before evacuation back to the United Kingdom (February 1917) for medical treatment in hospitals in London and Leeds, and then his transfer to the RAF (March 1918) for clerical duties in the UK.
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Cataloguer APR
History note
Catalogue date 2002-08-09