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Description: | Photocopied ms account (9pp) of his service as a Private with the 7th Battalion London Regiment (140th Brigade, 47th Division) on the Western Front, March 1915 - August 1916, providing good descriptions of his embarkation accompanied by pack mules, his first experience of entering the front line trenches near La Bassee, living conditions, the danger from snipers, casualties sustained, tunnelling operations, involvement in the Battles of Aubers Ridge (9 May 1915), Festubert (May 1915) and Loos (September 1915), service on Vimy Ridge, and the transfer of gas cylinders to the frontline (31 July 1916) during which he was wounded in the jaw and evacuated back to the United Kingdom. Also held with the collection are his Field Medical Card and two clinical charts (1p each) relating to his wounding and treatment at No 6 Casualty Clearing Station; four First World War press cuttings relating to the 7th Battalion London Regiment; a London Division Christmas card from 1917; a blank field service postcard; a printed admittance card to the Victory celebrations held at the Gezira Sporting Club in Cairo, Egypt (1p, 17 December 1918); a printed Special Order of the Day from General Allenby (1p, January 1919); a printed certificate of thanks issued to him on leaving the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (1p, March 1919); a printed programme to a performance by the 121st Indian Combined Field Ambulance Dramatic Association (4pp, April 1919); an undated ms notebook (44pp, plus 8pp loose) containing notes and sketches on aerodynamics and aeronautical engineering; a portrait photograph of four soldiers, presumably including Collis; and 8 postcard photographs of Palestine, 10 of locations in the United Kingdom including Lulworth camp, and 22 of France.
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Catalogue date 2003-05-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Collis, F Edward | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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