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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts memoir (215pp) covering his service as a subaltern with the 15th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, training in the United Kingdom (January - September 1915) and serving overseas attached to the 5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (125th Brigade, 42nd Division) at Gallipoli (6 October 1915 - 1916), Egypt and Palestine (January 1915 - February 1917) including the Battle of Romani (4 - 5 August 1916) and the subsequent advance on Quatiya, and on the Western Front (March 1917 - 1924 March 1918 including the 3rd Battle of Ypres and the March retreat). The final part of the account describes his life at Merton College, Oxford from October 1918 to July 1921.
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Catalogue date 1981-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sackett, A B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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