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Description: | Ms account in two volumes (111pp and 127pp) recording his service with the 1/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (145th Brigade, 48th Division) on the Western Front, 1916 - 1917, describing his first experience of trench warfare on the Somme and daily routine including night patrols into No Man's Land, the bitterly cold weather, rumours about the impending German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, his part in an attack on the village of Lempiere near Villers Faucon (April 1917), a German booby trap which killed all the occupants of the Battalion HQ of the 1/6th Gloucesters, an arduous march north on the Somme front to trenches at Velu Wood and then to the Ypres Salient, going into the line at St Julien (August 1917) where he describes the appalling conditions, an attack under heavy artillery fire and his decision to send up SOS flares.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Deaton, A J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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