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Description: | Photocopy of a generally uninformative ts biography (17pp) written by his son, describing his service with the 8th Battalion East Kent Regiment (24th Division) on the Western Front during the First World War. Wilkins, brought up in Brockley, volunteered in August 1914 and joined the 8th Battalion East Kent Regiment with which he served on the Western Front, 1915 - 1918; after suffering from a form of delirium tremors he was appointed as cook to the 3rd Survey Group, was wounded in March 1918, but returned to his unit after convalescence before the end of the war to be demobilised in April 1919.
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Catalogue date 1980-05-21 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilkins, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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