Description
Object description
Photocopy of a ts memoir (46pp with 4pp appendix), written in 1977, briefly recording his early life and education at Winchester College (1898 - 1916) and describing in good detail his training as a Royal Artillery officer cadet in Devon and Wiltshire (August - December 1916), his crossing to France and service as a subaltern first with the 6th Divisional Ammunition Column on the Béthune front (March - June 1917) and then with 53 Battery, 2nd Brigade RFA (6th Division), principally as a forward observation officer and infantry liaison officer (June 1917 - April 1918), on the Béthune front, Cambrai at the time of the offensive, the Somme including the German spring offensive and the Ypres Salient, his time in military hospitals in France after he was seriously wounded by shellfire (April - May 1918), his treatment in Lady Carnarvon's Hospital in London (June - October 1918), his convalescence in Totnes, Devon (October - December 1918) and his demobilisation (March 1919). The memoir gives a useful picture of the exact nature of his duties as a junior artillery officer on the Western Front and also includes an interesting account of the immediate aftermath of the Silvertown explosion in East London (January 1917).
Content description
Photocopy of a ts memoir (46pp with 4pp appendix), written in 1977, briefly recording his early life and education at Winchester College (1898 - 1916) and describing in good detail his training as a Royal Artillery officer cadet in Devon and Wiltshire (August - December 1916), his crossing to France and service as a subaltern first with the 6th Divisional Ammunition Column on the Béthune front (March - June 1917) and then with 53 Battery, 2nd Brigade RFA (6th Division), principally as a forward observation officer and infantry liaison officer (June 1917 - April 1918), on the Béthune front, Cambrai at the time of the offensive, the Somme including the German spring offensive and the Ypres Salient, his time in military hospitals in France after he was seriously wounded by shellfire (April - May 1918), his treatment in Lady Carnarvon's Hospital in London (June - October 1918), his convalescence in Totnes, Devon (October - December 1918) and his demobilisation (March 1919). The memoir gives a useful picture of the exact nature of his duties as a junior artillery officer on the Western Front and also includes an interesting account of the immediate aftermath of the Silvertown explosion in East London (January 1917).
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1996-05