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Description: | Privately published memoir (107pp, illustrated) recording his service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2/7th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (197th Brigade, 66th Division) on the Western Front, 1917 - 1919, describing the wholesale disorganisation of the Army following the German spring offensive (March 1918), the dangers posed by booby traps left by the Germans, British artillery fire causing casualties among their own men, the low morale following the Armistice and the common desire for demobilisation, his Battalion's posting to Calais to quell a riot of mutineers (January 1919), and his commission in February 1919 and transfer to the Army of Occupation in Bonn, Germany. Together with 28 ms letters written home to his mother (January 1917 - September 1919); a small collection of original passes and warrants; 27 ms letters (July 1919 - 1970s) written to him by fellow soldier James Kennedy, describing his facial injury and reminiscing about their personal experiences of the war; a ts account (16pp, ca 1969) in which he describes the nightly ration run in the Ypres Salient; ts anecdotes (18pp) mostly from 1918 describing a raid on the Hindenburg Line and the attitude of French civilians towards the BEF; notebooks containing ms nominal rolls; photographs of him in uniform and in civilian life; and a photocopy of an earlier ts draft of the memoir (129pp).
Cataloguer EJH | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Worthington, James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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