Description
Object description
Photocopy of a ts memoir (pp1-57 only), written in 1968, covering in particular his Fabian upbringing in rural Surrey before 1914, his enlistment and training in the ranks of an unidentified battalion (? 18th or 19th Battalion Royal Fusiliers) of the University and Public Schools Brigade in the United Kingdom (September 1914 - October 1915) and service with them in the 33rd Division on the Western Front (November 1915 - March 1916); his training in an officer cadet battalion (? No 4) at Oxford (June - September 1916); his subsequent service as a junior officer in the 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment (55th Brigade, 18th Division) on the Western Front (October 1916 - mid 1918) including the beginning of the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, an attack at Cherisy on 3 May 1917 during the Battle of Arras, life behind the lines at the time of the German spring 1918 offensive and a trench raid on 19 May 1918 when he was seriously wounded; his treatment and convalescence at a hospital in Rouen and private officers' hospitals in London and Sussex up to December 1918; and his demobilisation in 1919.
Content description
Photocopy of a ts memoir (pp1-57 only), written in 1968, covering in particular his Fabian upbringing in rural Surrey before 1914, his enlistment and training in the ranks of an unidentified battalion (? 18th or 19th Battalion Royal Fusiliers) of the University and Public Schools Brigade in the United Kingdom (September 1914 - October 1915) and service with them in the 33rd Division on the Western Front (November 1915 - March 1916); his training in an officer cadet battalion (? No 4) at Oxford (June - September 1916); his subsequent service as a junior officer in the 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment (55th Brigade, 18th Division) on the Western Front (October 1916 - mid 1918) including the beginning of the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, an attack at Cherisy on 3 May 1917 during the Battle of Arras, life behind the lines at the time of the German spring 1918 offensive and a trench raid on 19 May 1918 when he was seriously wounded; his treatment and convalescence at a hospital in Rouen and private officers' hospitals in London and Sussex up to December 1918; and his demobilisation in 1919.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1984-10