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Description: | Ms scrapbook/memoir (87pp plus photographs) of his service as a signaller attached to 232nd Brigade RFA (46th Division) on the Western Front covering, in rather rambling fashion, his experiences at the Second Battle of Ypres, the Battles of Loos, the Somme, Arras, Messines Ridge and Third Ypres, and during the March 1918 German offensive, and the final Allied advance in autumn 1918; and recording in detail his visits to Flanders in 1970, 1971 and 1972. Also, additional notes on his service on the first day at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and during the Third Battle of Ypres, and on Armistice Day; a small scrapbook relating to his service as Padre to the 2/5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (46th Division) and to No 4 General Hospital at La Baule in France (April - June 1940) and to his preparation for confirmation of personnel at anti-aircraft gun sites around Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1941 - 1943, including a military identity card and a graves registration label; and newspaper cuttings.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1976-11-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 2/5th Battalion 232nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery British Army Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Whiteman, Henry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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