Description
Object description
Ts memoir (22pp) written in a colloquial style describing his service 1914 - 1919 as Farrier NCO with the 53rd Division beginning with his enlistment and training in the Signal section of the Divisional REs in Cardiff and Northampton before embarking for Gallipoli, landing at Suvla Bay in August 1915 until his evacuation in December, his posting to Salonika for seven weeks and his arrival in Egypt in 1916 to rejoin the Division in preparation for the subsequent campaign resulting in the defeat of the Turks in Palestine, detailing in particular the use and treatment of horses and mules in these campaigns, the bodies of the 10th Division's casualties still on the shore at Suvla Bay, the waste of equipment destroyed in the evacuation of Suvla, a group of New Zealand snipers including their capture of a female Turkish sniper, an encounter with Kitchener during his visit, and the fierce rain storm in November 1915, the state of the survivors of the Serbian army in Salonika, a visit to Ismailia, the people and scenery of Palestine and a meeting with Lord Burnham (see his papers).
Content description
Ts memoir (22pp) written in a colloquial style describing his service 1914 - 1919 as Farrier NCO with the 53rd Division beginning with his enlistment and training in the Signal section of the Divisional REs in Cardiff and Northampton before embarking for Gallipoli, landing at Suvla Bay in August 1915 until his evacuation in December, his posting to Salonika for seven weeks and his arrival in Egypt in 1916 to rejoin the Division in preparation for the subsequent campaign resulting in the defeat of the Turks in Palestine, detailing in particular the use and treatment of horses and mules in these campaigns, the bodies of the 10th Division's casualties still on the shore at Suvla Bay, the waste of equipment destroyed in the evacuation of Suvla, a group of New Zealand snipers including their capture of a female Turkish sniper, an encounter with Kitchener during his visit, and the fierce rain storm in November 1915, the state of the survivors of the Serbian army in Salonika, a visit to Ismailia, the people and scenery of Palestine and a meeting with Lord Burnham (see his papers).
History note
Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1984-07