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Description: | A ms memoir (51pp) of his service as a lance corporal in D Company 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (York and Durham Brigade, Northumbrian Division) describing his enlistment, in August 1914, and his basic training at Cramlington Camp near Newscastle, then his transfer to the 1/5th Battalion Border Regiment (East Lancs Division) in which he served as a private in Belgium and France (May 1915 149th Brigade, 50th Division; December 1915 151st Brigade, 50th Division) going into the trenches first on 26 July 1916, the routine fighting life of which he illustrates, and taking part in the September 1916 Somme offensive as a runner attached to his battalion commanding officer; together with a vivid description of a shrapnel head wound incurred, being invalided home, convalescence in Lancashire, a discharge as unfit for overseas duty and consequent postings to the National Service Volunteers in Wales (August 1917) and the Royal Defence Corps to guard German Prisoners of War on the Isle of Man (November 1917).
Cataloguer NLY
Catalogue date 1986-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilson, L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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