Description
Object description
Bound ts volume (121pp) entitled "History of the 240th Brigade (1st South Midland Brigade), Royal Field Artillery (RFA), 1914-1918" written by several members of the Brigade, including the Brigade Trumpeter, and including good details about mobilisation and drilling in Plymouth and Broomfield, the departure for France on board the SS HUANCHACO (March 1915), the effects of the first gas attack on the Ypres Front (April 1915), the build-up to the Battle of the Somme (June 1916) and the inability to repair the guns due to a lack of proper supplies, along with various methods of make-shift gun repair, interesting descriptions of the sounds of various kinds of shell-fire and their effect on the men, the Brigade's involvement in the Third Battle of Ypres (July – October 1917) in increasingly poor conditions, the journey to the Italian Front (October 1917), where the Brigade saw action at the Battle of Piave River (June 1918) and Vittoria Veneto (October 1918), along with transcriptions of several official letters of congratulations received upon the declaration of the Austrian Armistice (November 1918); also includes 3 hand-drawn maps of the Western Front along the Somme, 22 unusual amateur photographs including views of the regimental barber at work, the remains of an exploded gun and several trenches in which the Brigade served; as well as 5 printed photographs from the Imperial War Museum showing the destruction of the Somme, Cloth Hall in Ypres, a cemetery on the Somme and a scene of the war in Italy.
Content description
Bound ts volume (121pp) entitled "History of the 240th Brigade (1st South Midland Brigade), Royal Field Artillery (RFA), 1914-1918" written by several members of the Brigade, including the Brigade Trumpeter, and including good details about mobilisation and drilling in Plymouth and Broomfield, the departure for France on board the SS HUANCHACO (March 1915), the effects of the first gas attack on the Ypres Front (April 1915), the build-up to the Battle of the Somme (June 1916) and the inability to repair the guns due to a lack of proper supplies, along with various methods of make-shift gun repair, interesting descriptions of the sounds of various kinds of shell-fire and their effect on the men, the Brigade's involvement in the Third Battle of Ypres (July – October 1917) in increasingly poor conditions, the journey to the Italian Front (October 1917), where the Brigade saw action at the Battle of Piave River (June 1918) and Vittoria Veneto (October 1918), along with transcriptions of several official letters of congratulations received upon the declaration of the Austrian Armistice (November 1918); also includes 3 hand-drawn maps of the Western Front along the Somme, 22 unusual amateur photographs including views of the regimental barber at work, the remains of an exploded gun and several trenches in which the Brigade served; as well as 5 printed photographs from the Imperial War Museum showing the destruction of the Somme, Cloth Hall in Ypres, a cemetery on the Somme and a scene of the war in Italy.
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