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Object description
Word-processed account (193pp) of his service with the 1/8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (146th Brigade, 49th Division) compiled by his son in 2010 using original diaries and papers, covering his attestation (December 1915) and training with the Leicestershire Regiment, posting to the 1/8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in Malta (April 1916), posting to Belgium (July 1917), a course at 2nd Army Corps School (December 1917), return to the 8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (185th Brigade, 62nd Division) in January 1918 and posting to the Arras and Arleux sectors (March 1918), his experience of the German attack at Bucquoy and the counter attack, his wounding and repatriation to the United Kingdom (April 1918), his posting to Earsdon Camp, Newcastle on prisoner escort duties following his convalescence, his training for a commission at No 1 Reception Depot, Ripon (September 1918), including notes on garrison duty and entertainment in Malta, musketry courses, training in Belgium, in defence of the Broodseinde sector (November 1917), his suffering through the effects of gas, details of his pay and the German attack at Bucquoy, together with his notes on his post-war visits to the battlefields, transcriptions of letters sent by him to his parents describing the action at Bucquoy (April 1918) and transcription of his diary (January 1918 – January 1919).
Content description
Word-processed account (193pp) of his service with the 1/8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (146th Brigade, 49th Division) compiled by his son in 2010 using original diaries and papers, covering his attestation (December 1915) and training with the Leicestershire Regiment, posting to the 1/8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in Malta (April 1916), posting to Belgium (July 1917), a course at 2nd Army Corps School (December 1917), return to the 8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (185th Brigade, 62nd Division) in January 1918 and posting to the Arras and Arleux sectors (March 1918), his experience of the German attack at Bucquoy and the counter attack, his wounding and repatriation to the United Kingdom (April 1918), his posting to Earsdon Camp, Newcastle on prisoner escort duties following his convalescence, his training for a commission at No 1 Reception Depot, Ripon (September 1918), including notes on garrison duty and entertainment in Malta, musketry courses, training in Belgium, in defence of the Broodseinde sector (November 1917), his suffering through the effects of gas, details of his pay and the German attack at Bucquoy, together with his notes on his post-war visits to the battlefields, transcriptions of letters sent by him to his parents describing the action at Bucquoy (April 1918) and transcription of his diary (January 1918 – January 1919).
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