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Description: | A collection of documents, comprising his commission dated 1914, a field message book dated October 1918, four ms letters, a machine gun course notebook dated May 1918, and a few photographs, relating to his service mainly with the Berkshire Yeomanry during the First World War, covering his training at Fakenham, Norfolk and posting to Gallipoli (2nd Mounted Division) where he was awarded the MC, service with the Berkshire Yeomanry, 2nd Battalion Camel Corps in the Libyan desert and Palestine, 1916 - 1917, and his posting in 1918 to the 101st (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Machine Gun Corps in France, where he served until the Armistice.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1977-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Berkshire Yeomanry Machine Gun Corps British Army Camel Corps 101st Battalion 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Blyde, H C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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