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Object description
Ts transcript (53pp) of an account written in 1932 - 1933 of his initial training with the 13th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (116th Brigade, 39th Division), August 1914 - late 1915, but mainly of his service in the Royal Artillery as a Staff Officer in the RA Bristol Area (late 1915) and training at No 7 Artillery School, Winchester (January - March 1916), before seeing action on the Somme and in the Ypres Salient as a subaltern and later Captain with the 61st Divisional Ammunition Column (March - December 1916) and 'R' Battery and Battery HQ of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery (January 1917 - 1918), containing useful descriptions of the ineffectiveness of his initial training with the Sussex Regiment, his initial enthusiasm for reaching the Front, the operation of an observation post, battlefield conditions and the unceasing barrage of the Somme, Germans carrying ammunition and food under the Red Cross, the murder of a German prisoner of war, the danger of false gas alarms, the suicide of a section commander upon hearing he was to be sent home, low level strafing from enemy aircraft, allied trains carrying containers of poison gas, the use of a dummy aerodrome to fool German bombers, a fight between Scottish and Irish soldiers over who would lead the advance, and the shooting of an officer by a drunken soldier after the armistice, together with 3 diagrams of the Western Front and 5 photographs of him in uniform.
Content description
Ts transcript (53pp) of an account written in 1932 - 1933 of his initial training with the 13th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (116th Brigade, 39th Division), August 1914 - late 1915, but mainly of his service in the Royal Artillery as a Staff Officer in the RA Bristol Area (late 1915) and training at No 7 Artillery School, Winchester (January - March 1916), before seeing action on the Somme and in the Ypres Salient as a subaltern and later Captain with the 61st Divisional Ammunition Column (March - December 1916) and 'R' Battery and Battery HQ of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery (January 1917 - 1918), containing useful descriptions of the ineffectiveness of his initial training with the Sussex Regiment, his initial enthusiasm for reaching the Front, the operation of an observation post, battlefield conditions and the unceasing barrage of the Somme, Germans carrying ammunition and food under the Red Cross, the murder of a German prisoner of war, the danger of false gas alarms, the suicide of a section commander upon hearing he was to be sent home, low level strafing from enemy aircraft, allied trains carrying containers of poison gas, the use of a dummy aerodrome to fool German bombers, a fight between Scottish and Irish soldiers over who would lead the advance, and the shooting of an officer by a drunken soldier after the armistice, together with 3 diagrams of the Western Front and 5 photographs of him in uniform.
History note
Cataloguer APR
History note
Catalogue date 1996-06-07