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Description: | Ts memoir (19pp) written by him in 1989, concerning his service as a Private with the 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (54th Brigade, 18th Division), August 1914 - November 1918, describing his enlistment and training in Colchester before his embarkation to France where he was stationed in the trenches on the Western Front near Fricourt (July 1915), continuing with a brief account of how his unit achieved their objectives during the Battle of the Somme (July 1916), also noting his transfer to the Royal Engineers (November 1916), his duties as a signaller, the time he spent recovering from an unspecified illness at Nottingham General Hospital until he rejoined his regiment immediately prior to his leaving for Egypt on the 17 December 1917, arriving in Alexandria on 2 January 1918. The account is interspersed with extracts from the diary he kept throughout his service, revealing how he was rescued when the ship he sailed in on his way to the Middle East was sunk by a mine; also providing brief details of this life both before and after the First World War.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2008-02-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Coy, T | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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