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Description: | Word processed transcription (163pp) of a memoir, written in the 1930s, and diary extracts recording his service on the Western Front with the 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade (60th Brigade, 20th Division), July 1915 - February 1916, and the 16th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (100th Brigade, 33rd Division), July 1916 - December 1918, referring to his enlistment in September 1914 and initial training in the United Kingdom at Blackdown, Witley and Larkhill where he mentions Army life and Christmas celebrations, then to France where he recalls meeting Indian troops who collected German ears as souvenirs, receiving a head wound in the Battle of Loos (September 1915) and being shot while out in No Mans Land (February 1916), seeing action during the Battles of the Somme (August - November 1916), Arras (April 1917) and 3rd Ypres (September - November 1917), the demotion of two Battalion cooks for stealing meat, recreational activities including a Divisional Race Meeting and frequenting estaminets, encountering a German deserter, trips back to the UK on leave, trench conditions (particularly in the Ypres Salient in November 1917) and his capture on 13 April 1918 during the German spring offensive, after which he was sent to a prisoner of war hospital at Ohrdruf, where he describes the treatment he received and living conditions before being transferred to a camp at Danzig and then Langensalza, undertaking factory work at Ruhla and describing reactions at news of the Armistice, relations between the British, French, Russians and Germans in the camp, the influenza outbreak at the end of the war and his repatriation. The transcription is accompanied by historical background notes written by his son, Leslie Gore, and photocopies and transcriptions of relevant documents.
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Catalogue date 2001-08-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gore, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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