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Description: | Ms memoir (145pp), with ts transcription, occasionally anecdotal, but giving good details of his experiences with the 2/2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) (October 1915 – September 1917), including a brief history of the opening year of the war and his opinions on the American declaration of neutrality and Conscientious Objectors, as well as his own experiences during an air raid on London (January 1915); his enlistment and training at Harlow, during which he helped start a musical group known as the ‘The Westminstrels’(January 1915 – April 1916), his work guarding a German prisoner of war camp in Rouen (April 1916 – July 1917), his training as a member of the mounted police (August – September 1917) and a journey to Dunkirk (now attached to the 2nd (Garrison) Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) where he underwent further training; also included is a map of Hazebrouck.
Cataloguer BEK | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gray, Len | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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