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Description: | Photocopies of a ts diary and recollections (149pp) of his service as an officer in the 10th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps (59th Brigade, 20th Division) on the Western Front, 1916 - 1918, describing his posting to the Laventie Sector in France and then Cordonnerie Farm and his routine in the line, his first experiences of the Ypres Salient (February 1916) and the bad trench conditions, the preparations for the assault on Guillemont (September 1916) and a trench raid for which he won the Military Cross; then his duties as liaison officer between the 59th Brigade and 115th Brigade at Ypres (June 1917) and the fighting at Pilkem Ridge before going on leave and resuming his diary on April 1918 when he was given command of the 59th Brigade School and then became ADC to Major General C A Blacklock, the 63rd Division Commander (August 1918), describing the final rapid Allied advance while criticising the Staff for poor organisation and lack of consideration, and the Railway Transport Officers and Army padres; together with ts recollections of the Fifth Army Retreat (51pp), May 1918, during which he acted as Company Commander in the Reinforcement Battalion of the 20th Division, a ts account (61pp) of Geoffrey Stafford Wallington, a close friend who served in the 10th KRRC until his death in the Ypres Salient in September 1917, and miscellaneous items including a ts copy of the War Diary of the 10th Battalion KRRC, June 1916 - April 1917, and a ts copy of poems and essays written by officers of the 10th KRRC, December 1915.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-20 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cockburn, R S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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