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Description: | Word processed memoir (13pp) recording his service as an NCO with a trench mortar battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery in Mesopotamia, 1916 - 1919, describing his embarkation for Basra and voyage out via France and Egypt, conditions in Mesopotamia including the prevalence of diarrhoea and dysentery and the generally poor standard of hygiene, the difficulties in transporting trench mortars, his delight in seeing the recaptured monitor HMS FIREFLY, pilfering supplies of food, visits to Baghdad and Babylon, Armistice celebrations which included a trench mortar display resulting in accidental fatalities, a burial at sea and his demobilisation and voyage back home to the United Kingdom.
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Catalogue date 2001-11-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Higgitt, J S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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