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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms account (15pp) of his service as a private in the 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (56th Brigade, 19th Division) on the Western Front, describing the fighting along the Menin Road (20 September 1917), their capture of Potsdam Farm and his successful attack of two pill-boxes where he took 14 prisoners, and his carrying of several messages back to HQ across exposed ground for which he won the Military Medal; together with a microfilm copy of an ms account (32pp) of his service as a Company runner during the counter-attack on Delsaux Farm (24 March 1918), describing an abortive patrol into No Man's Land and his involvement in resisting the German attack, including the sniping of German machine gunners, his wounding and evacuation for hospital treatment, while criticising a number of officers and RAMC personnel and making unfounded allegations that a number of officers were enemy spies.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gerrard, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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