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Description: | Photocopied extracts (75pp) from an undated, rather anecdotal ts memoir covering his service with the 9th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (78th Brigade, 26th Division until July 1918, then 198th Brigade, 66th Division) during the First World War, training on Salisbury Plain before embarking for active service in France (September - October 1915), Salonika (November 1915 - June 1918) and back to France (July - November 1918), including interesting references to his training, troop discipline both at home and overseas, conditions in Macedonia including the high incidence of disease, shortages of food and water and the poor hygiene, high casualty rates and burial of the dead, while discussing relations with his officers, feelings of animosity towards civilians on the Home Front such as munition workers, the problems of demobilisation and the loss of comradeship which he experienced after the war; the memoir also includes a brief section on his service as a policeman in Ireland during the early 1920s in which he describes the hostility of the Irish people towards both British soldiers and police, plus references to his work as an ARP warden during the Second World War, mentioning the organisation of night patrols and dealing with unexploded bombs.
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Catalogue date 2001-09-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gwinnell, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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