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Description: | Ts diary (40pp) covering his service with the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders (20th Brigade, 7th Division) in Belgium, 4 October - 8 November 1914, going into the line near Voormezeele and describing being relieved by some French Reservists, his first experience of coming under artillery fire, their initial lack of direct involvement in fighting and few casualties, the occupation of trenches beyond Gheluvelt before a German attack forced them to withdraw, the confused fighting during the attempt to recapture Zandwoorde and heavy casualties, and his evacuation to a hospital in Ypres and then to England after being wounded in the foot.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-17 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bruce, K H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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