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Ts account in diary form (87pp) describing his enlistment aged 31 in the Inns of Court OTC on 5 August 1914 and his training with them until being commissioned in October 1914 into the 2/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (184th Brigade, 61st Division), the training and equipping of that battalion in Berkshire and Essex, Zeppelin air raids (April 1915) and a recruiting drive in Berkshire (June 1915), his transfer to the 21st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (124th Brigade, 41st Division), training and move to France in May 1916, their entry into the line in Belgium in Ploegsteert Wood and life there until August when they transferred to the Somme to take part in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September and in support of the Battle of Transloy Ridges in October before returning to the Ypres Salient, his attachment as a detachment commander to the 2nd Army Musketry School at Nortbecourt (December 1916 - July 1917) and attendance at an Old Marlburian dinner in Bailleul in January 1917, his return to his battalion in August and their part in the Third Battle of Ypres in an attack on Tower Hamlets Ridge on 20 September during which he was badly wounded and evacuated via ambulance train to No 2 Hospital, Camiers where he remained until June 1918 when moved to a hospital in London until his demobilization in May 1919.
Content description
Ts account in diary form (87pp) describing his enlistment aged 31 in the Inns of Court OTC on 5 August 1914 and his training with them until being commissioned in October 1914 into the 2/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (184th Brigade, 61st Division), the training and equipping of that battalion in Berkshire and Essex, Zeppelin air raids (April 1915) and a recruiting drive in Berkshire (June 1915), his transfer to the 21st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (124th Brigade, 41st Division), training and move to France in May 1916, their entry into the line in Belgium in Ploegsteert Wood and life there until August when they transferred to the Somme to take part in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September and in support of the Battle of Transloy Ridges in October before returning to the Ypres Salient, his attachment as a detachment commander to the 2nd Army Musketry School at Nortbecourt (December 1916 - July 1917) and attendance at an Old Marlburian dinner in Bailleul in January 1917, his return to his battalion in August and their part in the Third Battle of Ypres in an attack on Tower Hamlets Ridge on 20 September during which he was badly wounded and evacuated via ambulance train to No 2 Hospital, Camiers where he remained until June 1918 when moved to a hospital in London until his demobilization in May 1919.
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History note
Catalogue date 1992-06