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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms diary recording his service with the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (10th Brigade, 4th Division), August 1914 - February 1915, and the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (22nd Brigade, 7th Division), October 1915 - 1916, describing his training and route marches in Yorkshire and the Midlands and then active service in France where he records his first experiences in action and the devastation of the King's Own Liverpool Regiment by German machine gun fire near Esnes, daily routine and route marches, their arrival in Bucy-Le-Long and time spent in trenches at Caves (September 1914), Houplines (October - November 1914) and near Ploegsteert and Nieppe, the level of enemy activity and daily casualty figures, his hospitalisation over the Christmas period and the 1914 Christmas Truce, his admittance to hospital a second time with frost bite and his evacuation back to the United Kingdom, on return to France his posting to trenches at Cuinchy (October 1915 - December 1915) and on the Somme (December 1915 - February 1916) where he undertook Lewis Gun training, route marches, battalion parades, physical training, football and other sport until his move north to trenches at Meaulte (February 1916 - July 1916), mentioning a course at the DC Gas School at Vaux sur Somme and giving an account of the battle of the Somme during which he sprained his ankle and had to 'retire out of action'.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Judd, S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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