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Description: | Ts account (14pp) of the raising in Grimsby of the 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment and its subsequent training prior to embarkation for France, August 1914 - January 1916; together with the ts diary (3pp) of Major J Kennington DSO MC, 8 January - 5 July 1916, providing a summary of his Battalion's movements going into trenches at Erquingham near Armentieres and then near Becourt; an anonymous ts article (4pp) written in May 1917 describing the arrival of the author's Battalion in Albert, and the destruction of the trenches and area near Ovillers la Boisselle from a bombardment; a ts summary list (5pp) giving the movements of an unidentified person, possibly H G Adshead, during October 1915 - January 1919; and miscellaneous items including ts messages of congratulation to the Battalion, ts operational reports on operations carried out by the Battalion and a ts history (8pp) of the 6th Battalion Royal Leicestershire Regiment based in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, 1939 - 1941.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Emerson, C H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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