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Description: | Semi-literate but interesting ms memoir (200pp, pages 75-77 missing) covering his service with the 7th Battalion (54th Brigade, 18th Division) and after May 1918 with the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, before transferring to the 37th Division, describing his call up in March 1917 and his journey to Belgium the following October, the life of an infantry soldier in the front line and then as an officer's batman, his illness from trench fever and Spanish flu, the effect on him of being caught in a shell burst, and a short period as a guard on German prisoner of war camps before his demobilisation in 1919; the account also describes the poverty he endured after the First World War when he attempted to earn his living as a baker.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1978-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harrison, E J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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