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Description: | Photocopied ts memoir (24pp) written in December 1915 detailing his experiences as a subaltern with the 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment (84th Brigade, 28th Division) on the Western Front between March and October 1915, in which he describes trench formation and the construction of Allied and German trenches, his billets in Ypres, mortar bombs and shelling, night parties and being dug in on Frezenburg Hill where he was wounded and sent back to Chatham Hospital on the HMHS ST ANDREW; on returning to Belgium in July 1915 he was sent to trenches at Wytschaete and then between Kemmel and Wulverghem where he describes life in the trenches, food, rats and snipers. In September 1915 his Battalion were sent to help with the Loos advance and he gives a very detailed account of the capture of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the lack of support and their subsequent failure to hold it; he returned wounded to the United Kingdom on HMHS ASTURIAS.
Cataloguer MP | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Cheshire Regiment British Army 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Aldersey, Ralph | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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