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Description: | Ts account (185pp) of his experiences as an infantry subaltern with the 18th (Pioneer) Battalion Middlesex Regiment (33rd Division) in the United Kingdom and France, 1915 - 1918, describing his recruitment and training with the Artists' Rifles, his posting to the Somme battlefield where he describes their duties including night construction work and life in the trenches, and his return to the UK suffering from trench fever after which he served on home defence duties with the 5th Battalion Middlesex Regiment.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lester, R M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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