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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account (82pp) of his service as a Private with the 2/10th Battalion Manchester Regiment on the Western Front, 1917 - 1920, describing his daily routine and his spell as a Platoon Runner before going to the front line at Ypres (October 1917) where he was injured in the foot and sent to Base Hospital, the heavy shelling of the hospital in May 1918 and his transfer to Aberdeen Military Hospital, the victory celebrations in Manchester before his return to Belgium, and then evacuation to England again due to illness before his discharge in 1920.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Edwards, D J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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