Description
Object description
Transcription (9pp ts) of a contemporary account, based on his diary, of the period March - November 1918 during which he was serving in the 10th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (51st Brigade, 17th Division), with good descriptions of the opening of the German Spring Offensive in late March, his capture during the Battle of the Lys in the following month, the often grim conditions he had to endure as a prisoner of war at Le Transloy, Marchiennes (?) and in various camps in the Ardennes region of Belgium, and the process of repatriation after the armistice; also a transcription (7pp ts) of an account written by another family member, and which originally appeared in the 'East Kent Gazette' in 1921, describing a journey to the Somme battlefields and the St Pierre war cemetery, where Thomas Wicks' brother, Lance Corporal Christopher Wicks, Army Service Corps, was buried.
Content description
Transcription (9pp ts) of a contemporary account, based on his diary, of the period March - November 1918 during which he was serving in the 10th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (51st Brigade, 17th Division), with good descriptions of the opening of the German Spring Offensive in late March, his capture during the Battle of the Lys in the following month, the often grim conditions he had to endure as a prisoner of war at Le Transloy, Marchiennes (?) and in various camps in the Ardennes region of Belgium, and the process of repatriation after the armistice; also a transcription (7pp ts) of an account written by another family member, and which originally appeared in the 'East Kent Gazette' in 1921, describing a journey to the Somme battlefields and the St Pierre war cemetery, where Thomas Wicks' brother, Lance Corporal Christopher Wicks, Army Service Corps, was buried.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2001-01