Object details

Category
Books
Related period
Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator
FITZWILLIAMS, DUNCAN C.L. (Author)
Hutchinson (Publisher)
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 19cm., Pagination: 64p. ill., figs.

Catalogue number
LBY 81 / 3720

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REEL 1: Recollections of operations as trooper with Yeomanry in GB and Ireland and private with King's Royal Rifle Corps on Western Front, 1914-1918: enlisted in army age 17, Sep/1914; death of brother Charles serving with Yeomanry; returned to France from Italy; story of being wounded in jaw and medical treatment; rations and cooking food in trenches; opinion of rations; story of cooking beef in Italy; posted to Londonderry. Ireland; description of loading horses onto ships; reason for transfer to infantry; role in distribution of rations on GS wagons; pay; duties in charge of transport; opinion of facilities at YMCA and Salvation Army; billeted at Reading race course during training; opinion of food; free canteens on stations on way home from Ireland; trained as bombing instructor in GB; story of lift in Duke of York's car to camp in Godstone, Surrey; story of brother Alfred receiving Military Cross at Buckingham Palace; story about brother Ernest; attitude to award of gallantry medals; directed troops into front line; use of shell hole covered with corrugated as dugout; story of German patrol; relations with French civilians; requisitioned food from farms; reason for not taking boots off; sleeping arrangements; attitude to death; description of dugout; problem of lice and rats; various memories of period in Ypres sector including Passchendaele and Menin Road, 1917; treatment of wounded; baths; pursued by Germans.
Sound
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as trooper with Yeomanry in GB and Ireland and private with King's Royal Rifle Corps...
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Home Guard register of hours of attendance at training and operational duties : Army Book 527 : [blank register for...

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