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Description: | Ts transcription (37pp) of a memoir recording his experiences during the First World War, enlisting with the 16th Battalion Manchester Regiment (90th Brigade, 30th Division) and training at Heaton Park, Grantham and on Salisbury Plain (September 1914 - November 1915) in the United Kingdom before embarking for France (October 1915) where he was based in the Somme sector, describing their reception by French civilians, his billets and the harsh trench conditions, involvement in the attack on Montauban on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916) and his wounding by shrapnel on 9 July which led to his evacuation back to the UK; after hospitalisation he joined the 17th Officer Cadet Battalion at Kinmel Park, North Wales (May 1917) and returned to France (October 1917) as a Lieutenant with the 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (7th Brigade, 25th Division), based at Givenchy and then on the Somme (December 1917) where he saw action during the German Spring Offensive (21 March 1918), describing gas attacks, troop morale and their lack of food and ammunition before moving to the Ypres Salient where he was wounded on 14 April 1918 and evacuated back home. Appended at the back of the memoir are Commonwealth War Graves Commission details for his brother, Private Henry Higson of the 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) and his uncle, Lance Corporal Frank Hobson of the 16th Battalion Manchester Regiment.
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Catalogue date 2001-09-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Higson, E J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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