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Description: | Three telegrams (3pp) concerning his service with the 1/23rd (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (142nd Brigade, 47th Division) and in particular his wounding during the Battle of Fleur-Courcelette on 16 September 1916; accompanied by 9 photos and postcards depicting him in uniform with his Battalion as well as some of the places he visited, also with a ts account (19pp) entitled ‘Les Dix-Huit’ of the pilgrimage he undertook to the battlefields of Belgium and France, Easter 1931, as part of a group of 18 ex-servicemen who all worked at Battersea Borough Council, describing their crossing to France and the subsequent time they spent remembering their former comrades at various cemeteries and memorials around Bethune, Neuve Chappele, Ypres and Arras, including 16 photographs of their trip.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army London Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Newbury, W H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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