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Description: | Ms account (38pp), undated but written many years after the events described, written in a rather brief and disjointed style but recording his experiences while serving with the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (22nd Brigade, 7th Division) on the Western Front and (from October 1917) the Italian Front during the First World War, including references to several narrow escapes from being killed, his taking several German prisoners singlehandedly on the Somme, and being wounded while fighting on the Asiago Plateau; together with a few brief references to his Second World War experiences including rescuing soldiers of the BEF from the Dunkirk beaches.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2004-03-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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