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Description: | Well-written bound ms account (69pp, plus 30pp ts transcript) of his service as a Captain with the 1/5th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (233rd Brigade, 75th Division) in Palestine, October - November 1917, containing interesting descriptions of the preparations for and his involvement in the Third Battle of Gaza, the atrocious weather conditions prior to the offensive, his advance across No Mans Land amidst shrapnel and bullets, the condition of the Turkish trenches, scarcity of fresh water, looting of local villages for food and fuel, the confusion and casualties caused by contradictory orders, the considerable casualties resulting from the offensive and his own wounding in the leg which led to his evacuation back to El Arish, together with a brief ts biographical note on the author written by his son, a cutting from THE TIMES, 29 March 1934, containing a photograph of the Plain of Sharon where the action of Milsom's account took place and three photographs of the Battalion in India in November 1915.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1996-11-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 75th Division 1/5th Battalion British Army 233rd Infantry Brigade Somerset Light Infantry | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Milsom, H L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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