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Description: | Photocopy of an interesting ts account (94pp), written in 1935, describing his life as a subaltern in the 2/3rd Battalion London Regiment under training in London and South Eastern England (October - December 1914), on garrison duty in Malta (January - April 1915) and the Sudan (April - September 1915) and then on active service as the pioneer battalion of the 29th Division at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli (September - December 1915); and, following convalescence in Malta and the United Kingdom, his service with the 1/3rd Londons (56th Division) on the Western Front (July 1916 - April 1917), including the middle phase of the Somme offensive; his appointment, after being wounded, to an RE signal course in the UK (winter 1917 - 1918) and his subsequent service in France with the 9th Divisional Signals during the Allied retreats on the Somme and Lys (March - April 1918), as a signals liaison officer with the 14th French Army Corps (May - June 1918) and his command of a cable section in XIX Corps Signals from July 1918 until his demobilisation in January 1919; together with ts extracts (10pp) from a diary kept by a private in the 2/3rd Londons during the blizzard at Gallipoli in November 1915. Wallace's memoirs contain useful comments on the attributes of officers of all ranks whom he encountered during the war.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1986-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wallace, W G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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