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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms memoir (281pp) recording his service as a gunner in the Canadian Field Artillery (4th Brigade, later 6th Brigade) on the Western Front, September 1915 - 1919, beginning with his arrival in France where he entered the trenches at Lindenhoek near Mount Kemmel, describing army life and his duties, range-finding and communication methods and anti-aircraft fire, an attack by the Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Fusiliers at St Eloi (March 1916), the ruins of Ypres, the bombardment of Vimy Ridge (April 1917), aerial warfare, his involvement in the Third Battle of Ypres (November 1917), a period back in the United Kingdom where he applied for the Royal Flying Corps but was deemed unfit, his return to France just before the Armistice, and his opinion of the German civilians he met, whom he considered less hostile to Canadians than to the English; the account includes 31 well drawn maps, and is accompanied by a letter from his friend W S Wilcock, serving with the Russian Expeditionary Force and describing a voyage along the River Dvina from Archangel (June 1919).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Catchpole, L A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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