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Description: | Notebook containing his journal (48pp ms) for the period November 1915 - January 1919, recording several abortive attempts to enlist into the army and eventual acceptance by the Royal Garrison Artillery in May 1916, training at the Citadel Barracks in Plymouth and posting to Ireland (? Spike Island and Fort Carlisle), transfer to Woolwich (London) and then to Winchester before proceeding to France in May 1917 where he joined 32 Siege Battery RGA in the Arras sector, moving to the vicinity of Cambrai in November where he was taken prisoner at the end of the month and confined initially at Le Quesnoy before being sent to Dulmen (Westphalia), from where he was sent on working parties in occupied Belgium and France, evacuation to Brussels ahead of the German retreat in the autumn of 1918 and making his way to Tournai following the armistice, repatriation with the first group of prisoners of war to reach England, describing their reception by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) at Dover; with the notebook are two related newspaper cuttings.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2001-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Newman, A J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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