Private Papers of E Kingsbury | Imperial War Museums

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Content description

Microfilm copy of a memoir in two parts (257pp and 362pp) covering his service as a Private with the 1st Battalion Devonshire Light Infantry (95th Brigade, 5th Division) from 1914 to 1916 on the Western Front, in the Ypres Salient and on the Somme; and then as a policeman in Sidcup, Kent during the Second World War, describing the Blitz and V1 and V2 air raids on South London.

History note

Cataloguer Backlog

History note

Catalogue date 1974-01-02

Object details

Category: Private papers
Related period: First World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator: Kingsbury, E
Dimensions: whole: 1 Microfilm Reel
Catalogue number: Documents.11102

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