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Description: | Ms diary (76pp) concerning his service with D Battery, 154th Brigade and (from February 1917) 173rd Brigade RFA (36th Division) on the Western Front, November 1915 - March 1919, containing useful descriptions of his involvement in the Battle of the Somme (July - September 1916), the Battle of Messines (June 1917), the Third Battle of Ypres (July - November 1917), the Battle of Cambrai (November - December 1917), the German Spring Offensive on the Somme (March 1918) and the final advance in Flanders (September - November 1918), food rations, football and boxing tournaments and a steeplechase, the harsh weather conditions, the mass casualties particularly on the first day of the Somme (1 July 1916), aerial and gas warfare, the effect of bombing on the horses, French refugees fleeing the German advance, field courts martial, the liberation of German prisoners, the Armistice and victory celebrations, and demobilisation, plus newspaper cuttings and divisional orders; together with a French picture postcard book comprising 20 photographs of Ypres before and after the war, and a souvenir programme (6pp) for a film of the Battles of Ypres shown in Lewisham, London, in November 1925.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1997-04-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 154th Brigade Royal Field Artillery British Army 173rd Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Grant, William John | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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