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Description: | Photocopy (20pp) of a ts diary covering his service as Section Commander with the Machine Gun Corps (52nd Brigade, 17th Division) in the Ypres sector, February - March 1916, going into line on the Bluff and recording a series of costly and unsuccessful efforts to retake captured trenches, a major German attack and then British and German counter attacks, the savage fighting, heavy bombardments and terrible trench conditions, and also including an unflattering reference to his Divisional Commander, Major General T D Pilcher; after 11 days on the front line they were relieved and he was evacuated to the United Kingdom suffering from severe frostbite.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Board, Vyvyan | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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