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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account (44pp) describing his service in the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (122nd Brigade, 41st Division) on the Western Front, 7 July 1915 - 1918, referring to his initial training in the UK, arrival in the Ypres Salient and billeting near Ploegsteert where his duties included assisting tunnellers with the removal of earth, witnessing the signalling to German observation balloons by Belgian civilians, time spent in hospital in Camberwell, London after being shot in the mouth while out in No Man's Land, his recovery and temporary draft into a company of KRRC at Queenborough where he trained recruits before rejoining the 18th Battalion in Belgium and then supervising a road-making detachment at Arquata, Italy, before returning to France in March 1918; during the German spring offensive he was captured and spent the remainder of the war at a prisoner of war camp at Minden, although there is no account of his captivity.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Martin, W H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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