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Description: | Ts memoir (17pp, written in the 1920s and based on contemporary notes) recounting his wartime experiences (December 1915 - January 1919), beginning with his enlistment under the Derby Scheme, his initial training at the Normanton Road Barracks in Derby (July 1916), Bradford Moor Barracks (August 1916) and Park Royal in London (September 1916 - December 1917) where he developed an extreme hatred of horses, his subsequent training for the Machine Gun Corps at Belton Park, Grantham where he describes the miserable conditions in the area during the winter (December 1917 - March 1918), his eventual departure to France where he was sent to Armentieres to join C Company of the 54th Battalion Machine Gun Corp (34th Division), the havoc caused in the trenches by a German mustard gas attack at night (April 1918), his experiences during the German Spring Offensive where he became separated from his Division and was transported between Albert, Ypres and Villiers where he became seriously ill after drinking water in which a dead German soldier was floating (March - July 1918), his stay in a New Zealand Stationary Hospital in Wisques (September 1918), his evacuation to the United Kingdom and demobilisation (January 1919).
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-07-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Minchin, H I | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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