|
Date: |
|
Description: | Ts transcription (21pp) of a series of accounts of incidents during his service with the 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (61st Brigade, 20th Division) on the Western Front in the First World War, including references to casualties caused by enemy shelling, trench conditions, gas bombardments and his hospitalisation suffering from the effects of poison gas, leave back in the United Kingdom and his near court martial for loss of iron rations, German aerial bombing of a base hospital at Etaples, the stealing of army rations, and relations with American troops.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2002-04-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Norman, S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
|