Description
Object description
Brief but in places very interesting ts account (30pp) of his enlistment in August 1915, at the age of 16, in the Hertfordshire Regiment and of his training with their reserve battalions in England during the following year; and covering his service on the Somme, including the attack on Stuff Redoubt with the 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (116th Brigade, 39th Division), September - November 1916; his return home as under-age and service with the 2/7th Battalion Essex Regiment; his service in France and Belgium, including the later stages of 3rd Ypres, with the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment (12th Brigade, 4th Division) from the spring of 1917 until he was captured in the Fampoux sector during the German offensive in March 1918; and his experiences as a prisoner of war, employed on working parties in the German rear area, in Freiburg and in Alsace Lorraine, until his repatriation almost immediately after the Armistice. Together with a copy of a portrait photograph, and a British Prisoner Money Coupon.
Content description
Brief but in places very interesting ts account (30pp) of his enlistment in August 1915, at the age of 16, in the Hertfordshire Regiment and of his training with their reserve battalions in England during the following year; and covering his service on the Somme, including the attack on Stuff Redoubt with the 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (116th Brigade, 39th Division), September - November 1916; his return home as under-age and service with the 2/7th Battalion Essex Regiment; his service in France and Belgium, including the later stages of 3rd Ypres, with the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment (12th Brigade, 4th Division) from the spring of 1917 until he was captured in the Fampoux sector during the German offensive in March 1918; and his experiences as a prisoner of war, employed on working parties in the German rear area, in Freiburg and in Alsace Lorraine, until his repatriation almost immediately after the Armistice. Together with a copy of a portrait photograph, and a British Prisoner Money Coupon.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1978-12-19