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Object description
A ts account, with ms annotations (18pp) giving details of his childhood in Cheshire, joining the Cheshire Yeomanry (1913), his mobilisation and getting his first horse, based in Chester, his Squadron being Eaton Squadron, part of the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade, moving to Yarmouth (1914), his 21st birthday (April 1915), practicing river crossings of the river Blythe, tiring of the outdated equipment and joining the Cheshire Regiment (1915), his father's influence getting him a commission, training and OTC courses, overseas service and crossing to an Infantry Training Depot at Etaples, France (May 1916), trench warfare training, joining 'A' Company, 5th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, a pioneer battalion (56th (London) Division) (June 1916), planning for the Somme Offensive, being allocated a platoon for going over the top to mark the advance, details of the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916), the nervousness in the trenches, the lovely weather, the barrage, going over the top, being shot in the shoulder and groin almost immediately and the rest of his men being killed or captured, crawling with his servant to a German trench, going in and out of consciousness, German counter attacks leading him to cross no man's land to the allied trenches, passing dead and wounded, receiving another bullet wound in his thumb, details of his treatment and evacuation to a hospital at Le Treport, moving to Whitworth Street Hospital, Manchester (August 1916), convalescence in Manchester, returning to light duty at Oswestry, moving to Kinmel Park Camp, near Rhyl, helping to train new drafts of Welsh miners, being made transport officer, the end of the war (November 1918), volunteering for the Army of Occupation and moving to Kardorf, near Bonn, Germany, relations with the German civilians, life in post war Germany, moving to Euskirchen in charge of an animal collecting camp to dispose of surplus Army animals, and his demob.
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A ts account, with ms annotations (18pp) giving details of his childhood in Cheshire, joining the Cheshire Yeomanry (1913), his mobilisation and getting his first horse, based in Chester, his Squadron being Eaton Squadron, part of the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade, moving to Yarmouth (1914), his 21st birthday (April 1915), practicing river crossings of the river Blythe, tiring of the outdated equipment and joining the Cheshire Regiment (1915), his father's influence getting him a commission, training and OTC courses, overseas service and crossing to an Infantry Training Depot at Etaples, France (May 1916), trench warfare training, joining 'A' Company, 5th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, a pioneer battalion (56th (London) Division) (June 1916), planning for the Somme Offensive, being allocated a platoon for going over the top to mark the advance, details of the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916), the nervousness in the trenches, the lovely weather, the barrage, going over the top, being shot in the shoulder and groin almost immediately and the rest of his men being killed or captured, crawling with his servant to a German trench, going in and out of consciousness, German counter attacks leading him to cross no man's land to the allied trenches, passing dead and wounded, receiving another bullet wound in his thumb, details of his treatment and evacuation to a hospital at Le Treport, moving to Whitworth Street Hospital, Manchester (August 1916), convalescence in Manchester, returning to light duty at Oswestry, moving to Kinmel Park Camp, near Rhyl, helping to train new drafts of Welsh miners, being made transport officer, the end of the war (November 1918), volunteering for the Army of Occupation and moving to Kardorf, near Bonn, Germany, relations with the German civilians, life in post war Germany, moving to Euskirchen in charge of an animal collecting camp to dispose of surplus Army animals, and his demob.
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