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Description: | Ts account (388pp), written in 1934 and revised in 1960, of his service as a private in the 2/13th Battalion London Regiment (179th Brigade, 60th Division) and the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and the Balkans, 1916 - 1918, describing a series of tours in the trenches at Arras where he experienced little action (June - November 1916), his transfer to Salonika (November 1916) where he was employed on road construction at Vlomeri Scala after which they marched to the front line opposite the Grand and Petit Couronne, comparing trench conditions favourably to those in France while describing his service with an ASC mule pack company before an illness ended his combatant service and he was posted to a Garrison Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry, then transfer to the RAMC where he served in the 64th General Hospital outside Salonika and then the 28th General Hospital before sailing for home and demobilisation in March 1919.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hartsilver, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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