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Description: | Ms diary (92pp) recording his service with the 41st Brigade RFA in France (4 August 1914 - 3 June 1916), providing a summary of the movements of his Battery while referring to the reception received by the BEF from French and Belgian civilians, the inadequacy of rations, his involvement in the retreat from Mons, his posting to Courcelles near the river Aisne before moving to Ypres (October 1914), his marginal involvement in the First Battle of Ypres before his unit was transferred to the Belgian village of Robecq for a short course in telephony, his employment in the ammunition column at Guinand and Cuinchy, the heavy German artillery bombardment during the Battles of Neuve Chapelle (March 1915) and Loos (September 1915), and his time in the front line until being wounded by a German shell and invalided back to the United Kingdom (December 1915).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jones, B C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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