Description
Object description
Microfilm copy of a ts memoir of both World Wars (203pp), based closely on contemporary letters and diaries, describing his enlistment into the 1/6th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment in August 1914, journey to France in February of the following year (15th Brigade, 5th Division) and experiences in the Ypres Salient until April 1915 when he was wounded, the Battalion's transfer to the Somme sector in August 1915 followed by a brief spell behind the lines during which Ellison was employed as a coalman, and its subsequent movements across the Arras, Somme and Ypres sectors during 1916 and early 1917, when he was put on extended sick-leave as a result of frostbite and eventually transferred to home service, spending the remainder of the war on office work at an Army camp near Liverpool (the memoir concludes with reflections on the origins of the "Angels of Mons"); the Second World War memoir concerns his experiences on the Home Front in Liverpool, including interesting descriptions of the air raids on Merseyside during 1940 and 1941, as a result of which he was forced to evacuate his home (which was then looted), his service with the Royal Observer Corps at Hoylake, and his amateur journalism; also a ts account (11pp) written by a Frederick Longland, a Canadian seaman who was serving in HMCS NIOBE in 1917, describing the devastation caused by the explosion at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in December of that year.
Content description
Microfilm copy of a ts memoir of both World Wars (203pp), based closely on contemporary letters and diaries, describing his enlistment into the 1/6th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment in August 1914, journey to France in February of the following year (15th Brigade, 5th Division) and experiences in the Ypres Salient until April 1915 when he was wounded, the Battalion's transfer to the Somme sector in August 1915 followed by a brief spell behind the lines during which Ellison was employed as a coalman, and its subsequent movements across the Arras, Somme and Ypres sectors during 1916 and early 1917, when he was put on extended sick-leave as a result of frostbite and eventually transferred to home service, spending the remainder of the war on office work at an Army camp near Liverpool (the memoir concludes with reflections on the origins of the "Angels of Mons"); the Second World War memoir concerns his experiences on the Home Front in Liverpool, including interesting descriptions of the air raids on Merseyside during 1940 and 1941, as a result of which he was forced to evacuate his home (which was then looted), his service with the Royal Observer Corps at Hoylake, and his amateur journalism; also a ts account (11pp) written by a Frederick Longland, a Canadian seaman who was serving in HMCS NIOBE in 1917, describing the devastation caused by the explosion at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in December of that year.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2001-05