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Description: | Photocopy of a ms account (28pp) based on a diary, June 1915 - August 1920, describing his service first with the 11th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (36th Brigade, 12th Division) on the Western Front 1915 - 1919 and after as a sergeant with the REs in Egypt and Syria 1919 - 1920, detailing in particular the fighting in the Armentieres and Loos sectors (1915 - 1916), on the Somme including the attack on 1 July, around Arras (1917) and in support of an American attack on Peronne (November 1917), and generally recording his movements, various incidents and the death and burial of his friends, together with an unused Correspondence Book (AB 152) and Message Book (AB 153).
Cataloguer NS
Catalogue date 1992-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Walker, R A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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