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Description: | A collection of nine ms short stories (92pp) entitled 'The Chronicles of Tom' written in the third person, and recounting some of his experiences with the Royal Fusiliers (either 26th Bankers' Battalion or the 10th Stockbrokers' Battalion) on the Western Front, 1917 - 1918, and describing guard duty in a tunnel beneath Arras (Easter 1917), a night fatigue in the Arras trenches, a night-time expedition into no man's land to lay barbed wire at Monchy, burying an abandoned tank, going into the trenches under shell fire, and a gas attack at Fleurbaix (February 1918), an escapade at Albert during the German spring offensive (1918), and collecting rations at Haute Deula Canal (October 1918).
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army Royal Fusiliers | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Padfield, Allan Theodore | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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