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Description: | An outstanding collection of two ms diaries (167pp and 128pp, November 1916 - December 1917 only) and 370 ms and ts letters (circa 900 folios) to his family in London covering his service on the Western Front as a junior officer in the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (122nd Brigade, 41st Division) from May 1916 up to the attack at Flers during the Somme offensive in September 1916; in various staff appointments in the Division and its component infantry brigades, mainly in the Ypres Salient, from October 1916 - July 1917, including preparations for the Battles of Messines Ridge and Third Ypres (Passchendaele) (August - September 1917); and as an instructor in trench mortars with the British Military Mission to the United States (November 1917 - April 1918). Together with a portrait photograph of Yoxall (late 1917), and a photocopy of a ts letter to his daughter about his journey home in SS PORT CHAMBERS with a description of the voyage across the Atlantic (March 1943). The collection is very useful for a young civilian in uniform's attitude to the war and Army, and for comments on trench conditions, morale, the staff and the American war effort.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 122nd Brigade King's Royal Rifle Corps British Army 18th Battalion 41st Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Yoxall, Harry Waldo | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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