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Description: | Ts transcript of a memoir (56pp, begun in April 1919 and completed in 1966) detailing his service with the 2/16th Battalion London Regiment (2nd Queen’s Westminster Rifles) (179th Brigade, 60th Division) on the Western Front, November 1915 – November 1918, including his training as a signaller, the death of a recruit from pneumonia following some unseasonably cold weather (March 1916), rumours in camp surrounding the Easter Rising in Ireland (April 1916), embarkation to France and reactions to the destruction caused by the Battle of the Somme (August 1916), a raid on a German trench during which his close friend was buried by an explosion and severely shell shocked (October 1916), his brief work as a sniper and a short time spent with a unit of Portuguese soldiers (January 1917), hospitalisation with fever during the opening of the Battle of Cambrai (April 1917) and period of recovery in England, his return to France, now attached to the 2/12th Battalion London Regiment (175thBrigade, 58th Division), and involvement in an American-led attack during which he was injured in the arm and ribs, his return to the United Kingdom and a description of the celebrations in Croydon on the announcement of the Armistice (November 1918).
Cataloguer BEK | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bright, Roy | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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