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Object description
Ts memoir (14pp) describing his service as a subaltern with the 1/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (149th Brigade, 50th Division) on the Western Front during the First World War, referring to his underage enlistment (aged 17) into the RAMC in September 1914, acceptance into the Inns of Court OTC and further training with No 11 Officer Cadet Battalion at Camberley before being commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers, embarkation for France (November 1916), his first visit to the front line trenches, the problems of navigating through No Mans Land, his duties as an Intelligence Officer during the Battle of Arras (April - May 1917), trench raids, the low morale in his Battalion caused by poor trench conditions, the military execution of a deserter, a month spent as an instructor at No 1 Musketry Training Camp (September 1917), his wounding during the Third Battle of Ypres (October 1917), treatment at a Casualty Clearing Station and No 2 Red Cross Hospital where his parents visited him, and finally his evacuation in January 1918 back to hospital in the United Kingdom. Together with a photocopy (1p) of the ts citation for his award of the Military Cross, gazetted on 18 July 1917.
Content description
Ts memoir (14pp) describing his service as a subaltern with the 1/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (149th Brigade, 50th Division) on the Western Front during the First World War, referring to his underage enlistment (aged 17) into the RAMC in September 1914, acceptance into the Inns of Court OTC and further training with No 11 Officer Cadet Battalion at Camberley before being commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers, embarkation for France (November 1916), his first visit to the front line trenches, the problems of navigating through No Mans Land, his duties as an Intelligence Officer during the Battle of Arras (April - May 1917), trench raids, the low morale in his Battalion caused by poor trench conditions, the military execution of a deserter, a month spent as an instructor at No 1 Musketry Training Camp (September 1917), his wounding during the Third Battle of Ypres (October 1917), treatment at a Casualty Clearing Station and No 2 Red Cross Hospital where his parents visited him, and finally his evacuation in January 1918 back to hospital in the United Kingdom. Together with a photocopy (1p) of the ts citation for his award of the Military Cross, gazetted on 18 July 1917.
History note
Cataloguer APR
History note
Catalogue date 2005-02-05
