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Description: | Ms pocket diary of 1917 describing in brief, general entries his service as a signaller with 293rd Siege Battery, RGA (5th and 2nd Armies) beginning with his training in the UK, his embarkation with the battery for France in March and their arrival on the Western Front culminating in the Third Battle of Ypres during which Bennett was fatally wounded, dying on 6 October, together with a loose leaf pocket book (5pp) of addresses and a short comic poem referring to Pilkem Ridge August 1917 and the mud. Also a photocopy of a ms letter (7pp) from his grand-daughter, Mrs Perrett, to the Museum (1 February 1988) describing his reason for enlistment when aged 37, his departure from his daughter, Mrs Perrett's mother, and her reaction to his death.
Cataloguer CH
Catalogue date 1988-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 293rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bennett, James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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