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Description: | Word processed transcription (4pp) of an incomplete memoir recording his service as a driver with the Royal Field Artillery, August 1914 - 1915, describing the announcement of the outbreak of war while his unit were based in South Africa, their embarkation and voyage back to the United Kingdom, their re-embarkation (October 1914) for the Western Front as part of the 7th Division, the emotional send-off from English women and equally warm reception from the Belgian civilians, their various billets, the BEF's retreat from the advancing Germans, the harsh fighting around Ypres and casualties sustained.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2004-01-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Burkmar, J T | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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