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Description: | Ts memoirs (457pp), first drafted in 1922 - 1923 and based on contemporary documents, covering his service on the Western Front as a medical officer with various units in the 15th Division, notably the 45th Field Ambulance (May - September 1916 and December 1918 - February 1919), the 73rd Brigade RFA (September - October 1916), the 71st Brigade RFA (October 1916 - October 1918) and the 10th Battalion Scottish Rifles (October - December 1918), taking part in the Battle of the Somme from August 1916 onwards, operations on the Arras front during 1917, the French Army offensive in July 1918 and the final Allied advance from August 1918, before joining 5th Army HQ at Lille (April 1919 - January 1920). There are extremely interesting passages concerning the debate on the treatment of shell shock and sexually transmitted diseases, his involvement in matters of military discipline, morale and comradeship among officers and men in the BEF and his leaves in the UK as well as descriptions of conditions in and out of the line. With the memoirs are photograph albums, postcards, trench maps, a few official papers and extracts from the 1917 diary of an American medical officer giving his opinions on England in wartime.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1987-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gameson, L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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