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Description: | Two finely bound volumes (274 and 44pp) containing ms transcripts of the regular and detailed letters that he wrote to his family in the Isle of Wight while under training as an NCO in the 18th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (33rd Division) at Clipstone camp and on Salisbury Plain (May-November 1915) and then with the Battalion on the Western Front (November 1915 - April 1916), when a member of No 5 Officer Cadet Battalion at Cambridge (April-August 1916), and as a subaltern with the 5th (Reserve) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (2nd Division) in France from September until December 1916 when he was evacuated home from No 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne after being wounded in November in the Battle of the Ancre, the final phase of the Somme offensive. Medlicott, a family man of over 40 when he volunteered for service in the ranks in September 1914, provides a mass of useful information about his general and officer training in this country.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1985-11-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 2nd Division 5th (Reserve) Battalion 33rd Division British Army 18th Battalion Royal Fusiliers | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Medlicott, W B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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