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Object description
Bound ts memoir (147pp, written in 1978 using letters written home) of his service with the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (70th Brigade, 23rd Division) between February 1916 and March 1917 and as an officer with units of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (September 1917 – March 1920), covering his enlistment with the Sherwood Foresters (February 1916), recruitment training near Boldon, Sunderland (March – April 1916), his embarkation to France with the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (122nd Brigade, 41st Division) (July 1916), posting to Albert and in support trenches at High Wood, his experiences at the front at 'China Wall' near Ypres, his training at No 7 Cadet School, County Cork, Ireland (March 1917), his posting to Sheerness as a 2nd Lieutenant (September 1917) and to France and Italy in support at Montillo, River Po, his return to Bapaume, France (March 1918), and to the trenches at Kemmell Hill (March 1918), his evacuation to England following wounding by a shell (March 1918) and award of the Military Cross, his return to duty as Assistant Gas Officer with the 5th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (April 1918) at Sheerness, posting to the 52nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps at Colchester (November 1918) and return to the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, Army of Occupation in Germany, and demobilisation (March 1920); including notes on conditions during training, the Zeppelin raids on Sunderland (March – April 1916), coast patrol duties, his initial experiences of trench warfare, witnessing the first use of tanks in action, coping with the mud at the front on the Somme (November 1916), Christmas celebrations, the hostility of the Irish civilians, his impressions of Italy and relations with German civilians and civilian conditions.
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Bound ts memoir (147pp, written in 1978 using letters written home) of his service with the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (70th Brigade, 23rd Division) between February 1916 and March 1917 and as an officer with units of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (September 1917 – March 1920), covering his enlistment with the Sherwood Foresters (February 1916), recruitment training near Boldon, Sunderland (March – April 1916), his embarkation to France with the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (122nd Brigade, 41st Division) (July 1916), posting to Albert and in support trenches at High Wood, his experiences at the front at 'China Wall' near Ypres, his training at No 7 Cadet School, County Cork, Ireland (March 1917), his posting to Sheerness as a 2nd Lieutenant (September 1917) and to France and Italy in support at Montillo, River Po, his return to Bapaume, France (March 1918), and to the trenches at Kemmell Hill (March 1918), his evacuation to England following wounding by a shell (March 1918) and award of the Military Cross, his return to duty as Assistant Gas Officer with the 5th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (April 1918) at Sheerness, posting to the 52nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps at Colchester (November 1918) and return to the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, Army of Occupation in Germany, and demobilisation (March 1920); including notes on conditions during training, the Zeppelin raids on Sunderland (March – April 1916), coast patrol duties, his initial experiences of trench warfare, witnessing the first use of tanks in action, coping with the mud at the front on the Somme (November 1916), Christmas celebrations, the hostility of the Irish civilians, his impressions of Italy and relations with German civilians and civilian conditions.
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