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Description: | Photocopy of a brief ts memoir (26pp) written by him and covering his enlistment with the King's Royal Rifles (December 1915) at Helmsley, his training at Aldershot (January 1916) and embarkation for France, his first experience of the trenches at Ploegsteert, conditions in the front line, his views on religion and war, his experience of following up the regiments after the Somme battle (July 1916) and his impressions of the tanks at Delville Wood (September 1916) with good details of the attack there and the use of tanks, of 'going over the top' and his role as a messenger, and his return to England soon after suffering from rheumatic fever.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | King's Royal Rifle Corps British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Miller, F J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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