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Description: | Photocopy of his ts memoirs (352pp), written in the 1970s and including much additional information about the units with which he served, covering: his training in England with the 1/28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles), August – October 1914 and service as an NCO with the Battalion in France, November 1914 – April 1915; his service as an officer with the 1st Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (14th Brigade, 95th Brigade from January 1916, 5th Division) in France from August 1915 until he was wounded at Delville Wood during the Battle of the Somme (July 1916); his service with the 3rd Battalion DCLI on the Isle of Wight (autumn 1916) and with the 1st Battalion DCLI (5th Division) in France from February 1917 including at Vimy Ridge during the Battle of Arras (April 1917) until he was wounded at Sanctuary Wood in October 1917; his service with the 126th Baluchistan Infantry in India (August 1918 – March 1919); civilian life in India and South Africa between the two world wars; his training with the 2nd Battalion, 6th South African Infantry (Police) Brigade (2nd South African Division) in South Africa (July 1940 – June 1941) and service with the unit in North Africa (June – November 1941); his service with the 2nd Battalion Transvaal Scottish (6th South African Infantry Brigade, 2nd South African Division) in North Africa from February 1942 until he was captured at Tobruk in June 1942; also an album (circa 258pp) he found abandoned in a dug out on the Arras front in March 1916, containing 23 sketches by soldiers in the 11th Infantry Regiment French Army, which he later used as a scrapbook for preserving items relating principally to the 1st Battalion DCLI on the Western Front (1915 onwards), but also to his later war service including maps, photographs, press cuttings, messages, a nominal roll for the 1st DCLI, orders, documents relating to the Somme offensive (1916,) particularly to Delville Wood, and to further operations in the Arras sector in April/May 1917 and correspondence including a letter he sent while at OCTU in France (May 1915) and a letter from ?his brother, a civilian internee in Scheveningen, Holland, dated May 1918.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 1st Battalion British Army Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) 1/28th (County of London) Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hughesdon, Reginald H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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