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Description: | Ms memoir (214pp), written in 1919, recording his service on the Western Front as a driver with the 298th Brigade RFA (Guards Division until December 1917, then 63rd Royal Naval Division), November 1915 - December 1917, and then the 34th Brigade RFA (21st Division until October 1918, then 17th Division), January 1918 - January 1919, describing his training in the handling of horses and mules while based at Luton in the United Kingdom, his embarkation for France, living conditions at the base before moving to the Ypres sector frontline, his duties supplying ammunition to the guns, his feelings about the possibility of being injured, hygiene and living conditions, his move to the Somme sector (December 1917) and evacuation back to the UK suffering from the effects of poison gas, his return to the 34th Brigade RFA on the Somme, the advance to the Hindenburg Line and the impressive condition of the German trenches and dugouts, the high casualty rate sustained by the Allies during 1918, the Battle of Cambrai (October 1918), new developments in poison gas and anti-gas measures, burial of the dead, German boobytraps, and his demobilisation in January 1919 and return home.
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Catalogue date 2003-07-31 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Farrar, W C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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