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Description: | Incomplete ms memoir (52pp) recording the memories of his service with the 4th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps (80th Brigade, 27th Division) (October 1914 – March 1915), detailing the journey from Rawalpindi, India to Bombay after rejoining his regiment, and from Bombay to Alexandria, Egypt onboard the SS IONIAN (October 1914), his arrival in France and the Christmas celebrations enjoyed by the battalion (December 1914), the march to Dickebusch, and his first experience coming under fire (January 1915), his work as a clerk in the battalion headquarters near St Eloi where he was trapped for three days under heavy fire, a Mass he attended in the ruins of Dickebusch cathedral and his interactions with local civilians with whom he was billeted in Belgium (February 1915).
Cataloguer BEK | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Griffiths, Alfred Edwin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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