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Description: | Word-processed transcription of a memoir (44pp) written using notes made by him during his service as a French private (poilu) with 279 French Infantry Regiment (140th Brigade, 70th Division) on the Western Front, in the trenches at Hautville and Artois (December 1915) and Verdun (February 1916), including interesting comments on his pacifist feelings and thoughts on mobilisation, his posting to the depot to practise his trade as cobbler at Neufchateau (August 1914) and Decize (March – July 1915), his posting to 279 Regiment with a group of reinforcements at Artois and Mont-St-Eloi, his duties as a stretcher bearer clearing the trenches of corpses, conditions in bad weather and under bombardment, his first experience on watch in the trenches, low morale amongst the company, precautions made against gas attacks, friendly relations with opposing German troops, work constructing shelters in the trenches, and his arrival at Verdun after the beginning of the bombardment and duties trench digging, with good details of his part defending the trench against enemy advance at Verdun.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | French Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lafrichoud, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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