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Description: | Incomplete ms account (17pp), with ts transcript (4pp), of his service as a Private (?) in 1/9th (County of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria's Rifles) The London Regiment (169th Brigade, 56th Division) during June 1916 at Hebuterne on the Somme, describing large-scale digging parties of his own, and the Wiltshire Regiment, in No Man's Land, during which he came under very heavy artillery bombardment, and the aerial antics of a British airman over the German lines; together with an ms covering letter (3pp) to his brother-in-law.
Cataloguer NLY
Catalogue date 1987-01-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stockman, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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