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Description: | Printed booklet (88pp, illustrated) compiled by his son (2009) covering his service with the RAMC during the First World War, and his association with the St John’s Ambulance Brigade (County of Oxford) throughout the Second World War, describing his mobilisation as a Territorial with the 1/3rd (South Midland) Field Ambulance RAMC (August 1914) and service on the Western Front (March 1915 – November 1917), his award of the Military Medal for services at Pozieres (July 1916) and discharge following a wound received at Passchendaele (November 1917); produced mostly from published sources and including some copies of letters written by him to his parents and related photographs. Also with the collection is a printed booklet (50pp) covering the service of his brother-in-law, W G Burt with the RNVR (1908-1933), including his service in the battleship HMS ALBERMARLE (1914 - 1916) on guardship duties at Archangel, North Russia, with the destroyer HMS PELLEW (1916-1917) and internment in Norway, and with the shore establishment HMS FLYING FOX at Bristol, containing no details of his duties and compiled from photographs, published sources and family knowledge.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lambourn, William Edward | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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