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Description: | Ms diary (48pp) written during his service as a NCO with J Battery, Royal Horse Artillery on the Western Front, August - October 1914, describing the preparations for their embarkation and crossing to France, the warm reception from the French, involvement in the Battle of Mons (23 August) and the subsequent retreat, his high morale despite the poor conditions on the march, rearguard actions against the advancing German cavalry, the Battles of the Marne (6 - 10 September) and the Aisne (12 - 15 September), and his evacuation back to the United Kingdom suffering from sickness (24 October). Together with 20 portrait photographs dating mainly from the First World War period, showing the Battery and its members during the early part of the war.
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Catalogue date 2003-11-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cummings, E J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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