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Description: | Photocopy of ts memoirs (17pp) written in 1965 of his service in the army, March 1915 - July 1917 beginning with his reluctant enlistment and training in the 3rd/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion TF, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) in England, March 1915 - August 1916, and service in France as a runner in the 1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (24th Brigade, 8th Division) near Loos, August - October 1916, on the Somme, October 1916 - March 1917, and in the Third Battle of Ypres July - August 1917, when he was badly wounded, returned to England and subsequently discharged.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1985-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Warsop, A C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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