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Object description
Ts drafts (315pp) of his book THE MACHINE GUNNER, covering his service with the East Yorkshire Regiment in the United Kingdom in 1915, with the 98th Company Machine Gun Corps (33rd Division) in France, April - July 1916, with the 13th Company MGC (5th Division) on the Somme and then at Givenchy, Festubert, Vimy Ridge, Arras, Ypres, and Gheluvelt in 1917, with the 13th Company MGC in Italy from November 1917, with the 13th Company (renamed 5th Battalion) MGC in France in operations at Nieppe, the Somme and Selle from April 1918, and with the occupation forces near Cologne until his demobilisation in April 1919; together with a small scrapbook of press reviews and correspondence concerning his earlier book WITH THE MACHINE GUN CORPS (75pp), and two drafts of a very general history of the First World War on the Western Front (175pp).
Content description
Ts drafts (315pp) of his book THE MACHINE GUNNER, covering his service with the East Yorkshire Regiment in the United Kingdom in 1915, with the 98th Company Machine Gun Corps (33rd Division) in France, April - July 1916, with the 13th Company MGC (5th Division) on the Somme and then at Givenchy, Festubert, Vimy Ridge, Arras, Ypres, and Gheluvelt in 1917, with the 13th Company MGC in Italy from November 1917, with the 13th Company (renamed 5th Battalion) MGC in France in operations at Nieppe, the Somme and Selle from April 1918, and with the occupation forces near Cologne until his demobilisation in April 1919; together with a small scrapbook of press reviews and correspondence concerning his earlier book WITH THE MACHINE GUN CORPS (75pp), and two drafts of a very general history of the First World War on the Western Front (175pp).
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1979-12