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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms memoir (100pp) covering his early working life as a footman including eyewitness descriptions of HM King Edward VII's funeral and HM King George V's coronation, 1893 - 1914, before his service with the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (64th Brigade, 21st Division) and later the 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (8th Brigade, 3rd Division) in France and Egypt, 1914 - 1919, describing his training before embarking for France, brief service in Egypt where he was involved in patrolling the Suez Canal, his return to France for involvement in the Battle of the Somme, his wounding in the leg on the Arras front and hospitalisation back in the United Kingdom, involvement in the Third Battle of Ypres including an attack on Zonnebeke (September 1917) during which he was wounded for a second time and witnessed a Gordon Highlander blow up two German prisoners with a Mills bomb, and hospitalisation at St Omer and in England before returning to France a few weeks before the Armistice; and his career after the war on returning to domestic service, 1919 - 1972, as butler to the Earl of Fitzwilliam, Viscount Devesi, Lord Middleton and Lord Fortescue, highlighting the contrasts between his wartime and peacetime experiences as well as the small effect the war had on the long term development of his life.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harrison, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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