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Description: | Ts memoir (29pp), written in 1973, recounting his service as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers between 1912 -1919, describing his basic training at Chatham, joining the 42nd Company RE and being posted to Portsdown, Hampshire (early 1913), transferring to the 41st Company RE and embarking for Singapore (September 1913), working as a carpenter building defences for Singapore and the surrounding islands and being temporarily posted to the Regimental Police, embarking for the UK at the outbreak of war in August 1914 and going to Scotland to await posting orders, joining the 56th Field Company RE (3rd Division) on the Western Front (July 1915), moving up for the Battle of Loos (September 1915), marching to the Ypres Comines canal to attack German forces (2 March 1916), carrying out trench maintenance and constructing gun emplacements, moving to the Carnoy Valley in preparation for the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916), constructing trenches for the infantry prior to the Battle of Arras (April 1917), blowing up trenches and dugouts whilst retreating during the German Spring Offensive (March 1918), counter-attacking at Bapaume and advancing as far as Cambrai (April 1918) and marching to Cologne after the Armistice (November 1918) before returning to England in 1919. Including copies of photographs showing Walsh in uniform.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007-12-21 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Walsh, A B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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