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46pp ts transcription of an account written in 1919 by the interpreter and liaison officer attached to the 1/8th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, The Post Office Rifles (140th Brigade, 47th Division) describing in a succinct but detailed style the service of the battalion from its arrival in France on 18 March 1915 until its disbandment on 2 February 1918 principally at Auchel, Givenchy, Festubert, Vermelles, Noeux Les Mines, Loos including the battle in September, Souchez, Vimy Ridge (March - July 1916), the Somme including the fighting at High Wood (15 September) and the Butte de Warlencourt (7 - 8 October), the Ypres Salient at The Bluff, Hill 60, the Battle of Messines (June 1917) and Westhoek, Gavrelle and Oppy Wood near Arras, Cambrai for the capture of Bourlon Wood (28 November) and the subsequent German counter-attacks, and Bertincourt where the disbandment occurred, including references to inspections of the battalion by Generals Sir John French and Douglas Haig in April 1915, the grave of Rupert Brooke's brother Alfred near Fosse 7, Loos killed when a subaltern in the battalion in June 1915, the attack of the Guard's Division at Hill 70 on 27 September 1915, the Anzac troops who the battalion relieved on the Somme and at Ypres and the unhealthy condition of the Ypres Salient trenches in the winter of 1916 - 1917, with a 2pp description of the battalion's horses.
Content description
46pp ts transcription of an account written in 1919 by the interpreter and liaison officer attached to the 1/8th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, The Post Office Rifles (140th Brigade, 47th Division) describing in a succinct but detailed style the service of the battalion from its arrival in France on 18 March 1915 until its disbandment on 2 February 1918 principally at Auchel, Givenchy, Festubert, Vermelles, Noeux Les Mines, Loos including the battle in September, Souchez, Vimy Ridge (March - July 1916), the Somme including the fighting at High Wood (15 September) and the Butte de Warlencourt (7 - 8 October), the Ypres Salient at The Bluff, Hill 60, the Battle of Messines (June 1917) and Westhoek, Gavrelle and Oppy Wood near Arras, Cambrai for the capture of Bourlon Wood (28 November) and the subsequent German counter-attacks, and Bertincourt where the disbandment occurred, including references to inspections of the battalion by Generals Sir John French and Douglas Haig in April 1915, the grave of Rupert Brooke's brother Alfred near Fosse 7, Loos killed when a subaltern in the battalion in June 1915, the attack of the Guard's Division at Hill 70 on 27 September 1915, the Anzac troops who the battalion relieved on the Somme and at Ypres and the unhealthy condition of the Ypres Salient trenches in the winter of 1916 - 1917, with a 2pp description of the battalion's horses.
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History note
Catalogue date 1988-08