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Description: | Word processed ts memoir (18pp) recording his service in the 281st Brigade RFA during the First World War attached to 36th Division (October - December 1915) and 56th Division (from January 1916), describing his embarkation for the Western Front in October 1915, preparations for the Battle of the Somme and events of the First Day (1 July 1916), his involvement in the Battles of Arras (March - April 1917), Third Ypres (July - August 1917) and Cambrai (November 1917) and the German Spring Offensive (March 1918), living conditions in the trenches, mud and the associated transport problems, difficulties in communicating with the French, Christmas celebrations, the use of poison gas, his experiences of leave back in Britain, the malnutrition suffered by French civilians who had lived behind the German lines and looting carried out by the Germans, and his own muted reaction to the Armistice. Together with photocopies (2pp) of a press cutting relating to his successful cabinet-making business after the war, plus a selection of photographs.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2000-11-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Glock, P A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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