Description
Object description
Photocopied ms/ts memoirs (138pp) written in 1929 of his service on the Western Front, initially with the Machine Gun Section of the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (21st Brigade, 7th Division), covering his first experience of being under fire during the First Battle of Ypres, his Battalion's part in the Christmas Truce, and service in the Fleurbaix sector, November 1914 - March 1915, with the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (15th Brigade, 5th Division) in support behind Hill 60, with a vivid account of the first gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres, then in reserve near Zillebeke, April - September 1915, and with the 1st Battalion in the trenches at Bray-sur-Somme, then near Fricourt, and finally in the Arras sector where he was wounded and invalided home, October 1915 - April 1916, containing good descriptions of conditions in the trenches, and an interesting account of his experience of being a member of a firing squad; together with a photograph.
Content description
Photocopied ms/ts memoirs (138pp) written in 1929 of his service on the Western Front, initially with the Machine Gun Section of the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (21st Brigade, 7th Division), covering his first experience of being under fire during the First Battle of Ypres, his Battalion's part in the Christmas Truce, and service in the Fleurbaix sector, November 1914 - March 1915, with the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (15th Brigade, 5th Division) in support behind Hill 60, with a vivid account of the first gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres, then in reserve near Zillebeke, April - September 1915, and with the 1st Battalion in the trenches at Bray-sur-Somme, then near Fricourt, and finally in the Arras sector where he was wounded and invalided home, October 1915 - April 1916, containing good descriptions of conditions in the trenches, and an interesting account of his experience of being a member of a firing squad; together with a photograph.
History note
Cataloguer VAF
History note
Catalogue date 1979-11