Description: | Good ms account (24pp), with ts transcription (14pp), written by a Private Heys, possibly of The King's (Liverpool Regiment), and recording his service on the Western Front during August - September 1914, describing in detail his involvement in the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne and Aisne, the living conditions of soldiers in the early days of the war, casualties and burial of the dead, German atrocities and his opinions of the French and German armies.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2002-01-29 |