Description
Object description
4 ms volumes (953pp) written by him in 1926 recalling in excellent detail his experiences on the Western Front while serving with the 2/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (201st Brigade, 67th Division and then 160th Brigade, 53rd Division after 24 April 1915) during the First World War, including his training as a Lewis gunner, life in the trenches during the Battle of the Somme, the capture of German prisoners, the first use of tanks, descriptions of casualties on the Front, gas attacks, excellent examples of the attrition of trench warfare in regard to the battles at Ypres, Messines, Passchendaele, Arras and Cambrai and the fighting at Hill 60, the Menin Road and Hellfire Corner, and his extended stay in hospital with fever; the volumes also include hand drawn trench maps, sketches of planes, and an official British Expeditionary Force photograph of the Western Front in which he and other members of his battalion feature.
Content description
4 ms volumes (953pp) written by him in 1926 recalling in excellent detail his experiences on the Western Front while serving with the 2/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (201st Brigade, 67th Division and then 160th Brigade, 53rd Division after 24 April 1915) during the First World War, including his training as a Lewis gunner, life in the trenches during the Battle of the Somme, the capture of German prisoners, the first use of tanks, descriptions of casualties on the Front, gas attacks, excellent examples of the attrition of trench warfare in regard to the battles at Ypres, Messines, Passchendaele, Arras and Cambrai and the fighting at Hill 60, the Menin Road and Hellfire Corner, and his extended stay in hospital with fever; the volumes also include hand drawn trench maps, sketches of planes, and an official British Expeditionary Force photograph of the Western Front in which he and other members of his battalion feature.
History note
Cataloguer KAW
History note
Catalogue date 2006-12-04