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Description: | Ms diary August - December 1914 (12pp) describing his return journey from South Africa to Southampton following the outbreak of war where his unspecified unit became the Divisional Ammunition Column of the 7th Division, their embarkation for Belgium in October 1914 arriving first in Zeebrugge and then retiring via Ghent to Ypres (17 October) where they fought through the First Battle of Ypres (19 October - 5 November) before withdrawing to Bailleul on 13 November, with brief references to the effectiveness of British artillery fire against the massed ranks of German infantry, the unreliability of German approaches under cover of white flags, and the fighting of the 14th Battalion London Regiment, the London Scottish, together with three photographs.
Cataloguer NS
Catalogue date 1989-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army 7th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Simpson, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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