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Object description
Ts account (23pp) describing his service with the Northumberland Fusiliers including: the formation and training of the 15th Battalion (89th Brigade, 30th Division), September 1914 - October 1915, posting to the 8th Battalion (34th Brigade, 11th Division) in Egypt in November 1915 following the evacuation of Gallipoli, the move to France in 1916 reaching the Somme where he acted as Intelligence Officer at Brigade HQ during the Division's attack at Thiepval and later as a company commander, conditions during the 1916 - 1917 winter, the Battles of Messines (June 1917) and Langemarck (August 1917) during which he was wounded, hospitals in Etaples and London followed by a period as OTC instructor at Giggleswick School during the autumn, his return to France in December and an attack of flu before finally rejoining the 8th Battalion near Loos (March 1918) from where as a result of a gas attack he was evacuated again via Etaples to London, with brief references to the use of tanks on the Somme (September 1916), a meeting with General Gough and an inspection by Sir Douglas Haig, and the shooting down of an aeroplane by rifle fire
Content description
Ts account (23pp) describing his service with the Northumberland Fusiliers including: the formation and training of the 15th Battalion (89th Brigade, 30th Division), September 1914 - October 1915, posting to the 8th Battalion (34th Brigade, 11th Division) in Egypt in November 1915 following the evacuation of Gallipoli, the move to France in 1916 reaching the Somme where he acted as Intelligence Officer at Brigade HQ during the Division's attack at Thiepval and later as a company commander, conditions during the 1916 - 1917 winter, the Battles of Messines (June 1917) and Langemarck (August 1917) during which he was wounded, hospitals in Etaples and London followed by a period as OTC instructor at Giggleswick School during the autumn, his return to France in December and an attack of flu before finally rejoining the 8th Battalion near Loos (March 1918) from where as a result of a gas attack he was evacuated again via Etaples to London, with brief references to the use of tanks on the Somme (September 1916), a meeting with General Gough and an inspection by Sir Douglas Haig, and the shooting down of an aeroplane by rifle fire
History note
Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1989-02