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Description: | Photocopy of his ms account (77pp) recording his service as a Machine Gun Instructor with the Border Regiment, November 1914 - January 1919, including: training with the 7th Battalion (51st Brigade, 17th Division) at Bovington and Lulworth, Dorset, November 1914 - May 1915; final training before leaving for the front at Winchester, Hampshire, May - July 1915; active service in the Ypres salient, July 1915 - May 1916, when he was invalided to the UK with trench fever; service with the 10th (Reserve) Battalion at Seaford, May - July 1916; embarkation for Salonika, July 1916; active service with the 9th Battalion (Pioneer Battalion of the 22nd Division) on the Doiran front in Salonika, August - September 1916, when he was invalided to Malta with dysentery until August 1917; he then convalesced in the UK until April 1918; active service with the 7th Battalion in France, April 1918 - November 1918, when he was wounded; recovering in Hospital near London until January 1919, when he was demobilised; commenting on his baptism of fire; trench life; the heavy casualties; constant German shelling and attacks; an Instructors Course at the Machine Gun School, Wisques; suffering from trench fever; American troops attached to his unit in 1918; a night patrol; being gassed; and the cowardice of his CO, who was ordered home, September 1918.
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Catalogue date 1998-04-30 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Winnard, G G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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