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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account (96pp), written ca 1969, detailing his service with the 17th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Commercials) (97th Brigade, 32nd Division) on the Western Front, November 1916 - 1917, initially facing the Hindenburg Line and then forming part of the attack through Nesle (April 1917), by which time he was serving as a regular member of his Battalion's Ambulance Section, and then in reserve for the attack on Messines Ridge (July 1917) after which he was transferred to the Belgian coast to provide support for the Belgian army at Nieuport; he was later wounded at Passchendaele and returned to the United Kingdom.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Elshaw, A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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