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Description: | Ts transcription (63pp) of a memoir recording his service in the United Kingdom with the 2nd Battalion Honourable Artillery Company until commissioned into the 4th Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, then from November 1916 on active service with the 6th Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment (37th Brigade, 12th Division) on the Western Front, 1915 - 1918, describing in considerable detail his pre-war attendance at the Sussex Yeomanry riding school at Clapham, his basic and officer training, army life on Home service and in the trenches, his typical duties as a subaltern, involvement in the Battle of Arras (April 1917), his experience of being wounded and an account of a cavalry charge in 1917.
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Catalogue date 2001-12-14 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Worman, A S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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