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Description: | Photocopy (23pp) of an ms diary written during his service with the 11th Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (123rd Brigade, 41st Division) on the Western Front, December 1916 - June 1917, describing his embarkation to France and initial training before joining the 11th Battalion (7 January), front line duty including trench raids, the intense shelling and his slight wounding from shrapnel, involvement in the first day of the Flanders Offensive (7 June 1917) and an excellent description of his narrow escape when the trench he was in was destroyed by German shells.
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Catalogue date 2003-09-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Thurlow, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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