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Description: | Ms account (60pp) of his enlistment and training with the (?) 2/4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment in the United Kingdom, December 1916 - January 1917, and India, February - August 1917, describing the enlistment drive at the beginning of the war and the difficulties he faced in being accepted into the Army, initial training at Halton Camp near Wendover, the voyage to India during which he refers to conditions onboard ship and the daily routine, stops in South Africa at Freetown, Cape Town and Durban where he describes shore leave and sight-seeing, a period in the ship's hospital ward with a bad cold, and the provision of entertainments such as boxing tournaments and concerts, then his arrival at Bombay and their train journey to the barracks at Belgaum, the facilities there and the local people. Together with an ms list (1p) of his service career and blank examples (7pp) of 'Young Men's Christian Association with the Salonika Forces' headed notepaper.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2001-09-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Temple, F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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