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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account in two volumes (41pp and 109pp) recording his service as a junior officer in the Royal Field Artillery in the United Kingdom, France and Germany, 1914 - 1919, describing his early life and education in Canada, his scholarship to study in Paris and decision to cross to England in order to join the British Army on the outbreak of war, his obtaining a commission in the 12th Battalion Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment (12th Division) until his appointment to the staff of the Commander Royal Artillery, 18th Division at Colchester and then to the 84th Brigade RFA (18th Division), describing his training in the UK, the dependance on horses and the lack of modern equipment, his crossing to France in July 1915 and posting to the Somme where he developed a method of flash spotting and commanded a number of observer groups from headquarters at Acq near Mont St Eloi, the construction of a new Observation Post overlooking Vimy Ridge (January 1916), counter-battery work and his appointment as Staff Captain to the GOC Royal Artillery, 6th Corps, for counter-battery intelligence, developments in sound ranging and the introduction of bearing pickets, his appointment as flash spotting expert to GHQ Maps where he worked with William Lawrence Bragg, the Army's sound ranging expert, until the Armistice after which he was sent to inspect the German survey school at Wahn and assess their techniques before his return to London in 1919.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hemming, H H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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