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Description: | A most interesting series of ms accounts (24pp, in French) by Edmond Beer and his two brothers who served as grenadiers in the Belgian Army at the start of the First World War, written in a family album whilst convalescing in Newmarket in early 1915, describing their participation in the defence of Belgium against the invading German forces during August - November 1914, including their part in defending the two forts of Wavre Ste Catherine, Anvers (Antwerp) and Waelhem, Malines (Mechelen), with vivid descriptions of trench warfare and of coming under enemy shell-fire during the siege of Antwerp (September - October 1914) and the Battle of the Yser (October - November 1914), in which two of the brothers were wounded and subsequently evacuated to the United Kingdom; the accounts, often highly emotional in tone, include graphic descriptions of death and wounding in the trenches, and of executions by firing-squad.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1991-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Beer, Edmond | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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