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Description: | A series of nine very detailed ms diaries (with partial edited transcriptions in two notebooks) covering his training as a subaltern with the 3/7th London Brigade RFA in the United Kingdom, July - December 1915, and his subsequent service on the Western Front as the orderly officer at the 7th (later 237th) London Brigade RFA HQ (47th Division), December 1915 - December 1916, the adjutant of the 236th Brigade RFA (47th Division), January 1917 - June 1918, an officer with "B" Battery of the Brigade, June - October 1918, and a staff captain at 47th Divisional Artillery HQ, November - December 1918, while embracing his units' operations in the Battles of the Somme, August - October 1916, Messines Ridge, June 1917, Third Ypres, July - September 1917, Cambrai, November - December 1917, the Allied retreat on the Somme, March 1918, and their advance on the Somme and in Artois, August - October 1918, as well as useful references to his activities when on leave (June 1916, January and August 1917, February and August 1918), a visit from a Lena Ashwell concert party (May 1918), and occasional manifestations of war weariness; together with two portrait photographs, a brief ts history (7pp) of his platoon in the 10th Cheshire Home Guard, 1940 - 1944, and a photocopied ms letter (4pp) written in 1970 recording highlights of his Home Guard service.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1984-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tansley, L B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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