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Description: | A very graphic and detailed ts account (82pp), written shortly after the First World War by the medical officer of the 8th Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment (24th Division) describing his experiences during the Fifth Army's retreat on the Somme in March - April 1918 and containing many interesting references on the state of the morale of his own Battalion and other units in the Division and copies of some of contemporary poems; together with a few related maps and documents, various incomplete ms and ts drafts of the account and some ms notes (4pp) on the medical arrangements for a trench raid carried out by his Battalion in November 1917.
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Catalogue date 1985-10-24 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 8th Battalion British Army Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lodge-Patch, C J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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