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Description: | Journal (54pp ms) kept during April - August 1918 while he was serving with the 20th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (121st Brigade, 40th Division), recording in some detail his experiences during the Battalion's actions in the Battle of the Lys in support of Portuguese forces south of Armentieres, particularly the actions around `Elbow Farm', his company's surrender to Saxon troops after running out of ammunition, march to and confinement at Lille before spending the remainder of the war as a POW in Germany at Rastatt, Karlsruhe and Pforzheim camps (Baden); a letter (2pp ms) written by Hulls from Pforzheim; photocopies of several pertinent documents, including a letter from the British camp chaplain at Pforzheim notifying the vicar of Hulls' parish of the latter's baptism in the camp in May 1918, the results of some research into Hulls' wartime service (dated 1991), and several maps concerning the actions of April 1918; two photographs of officers including Hulls (circumstances uncertain, possibly taken around the period of his captivity).
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2003-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hulls, A R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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