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Description: | Reconstructed narrative (330pp ts), written by his nephew and based partly on contemporary letters, of his service in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, prefaced by an account of his early life in England and emigration to Australia before the war, his enlistment into the Australian Infantry in 1916 and training in Australia and England with the 19th Battalion AIF before being sent on active service in France in early 1917, his experiences with the Battalion on the Somme in February - May 1917 during the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the early stages of the Battle of Bullecourt, during which he was mortally wounded (the volume contains copies of various documents including a newspaper extract concerning his death, and his wound label).
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2004-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bamford, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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