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Description: | Ts account (272pp) of his experiences with the 7th Battalion London Regiment on the Western Front, 1915 - 1916, and as a prisoner of war in Germany, 1916 - 1918, describing going into the trenches at Festubert (March 1915) and his minor involvement in the Battle of Festubert, his transfer to the Machine Gun Section (June 1915), his move to the Loos sector and then to Vimy Ridge where they suffered a heavy German attack during which he was wounded by shrapnel and taken prisoner (21 May 1916), his treatment as 'walking wounded' before spending time in hospital at Valenciennes and Cologne and then being sent to the prisoner of war camp at Stendal, the regular arrivals of food and clothing parcels from the Regimental Funds and the British Red Cross, transfer to a camp at Merseburg where he describes the depressing atmosphere, boredom and monotony as well as various working parties and the different jobs he was compelled to do until the Armistice, when he was moved to a transit camp at Alten-Grabow before returning to the United Kingdom.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hunt, H E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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