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Description: | Microfilm copy of ms extracts (68pp) from the War Diary of the 2nd Field Company RE, 1914 - 1918, detailing the company's arrival in France where it was based at Estaires and employed in the Neuve Chapelle - Laventie sector on repairing or building trench works, bridges and roads, while being involved in the Battle of Neuve Eglise (March 1915), at Bridoux (September 1915), on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme (July 1916), and an attack on Zenith Trench in the area of Le Transloy (October 1916); together with a microfilm copy of a scrap album (88pp) providing brief details of his service with the 3rd Army Corps Royal Engineers as an Engineer Clerk and Draughtsman QMS in France, August 1914 - June 1917, including postcards, drawings, photographs and cartoons relating to the places which he visited and the people whom he met, including the Prince of Wales, describing conditions around Soissons and including a message from the enemy regarding the Christmas Truce of 1914; also a microfilm copy of an ms autobiography and scrap album (35pp) covering his life from birth in Rochdale in 1879 to May 1924, excluding the period of the First World War; and a microfilm copy of his ms Army Service Book containing military education and training certificates and his soldier's will.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-30 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Fenton, J S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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