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Description: | Photocopy of a ms account (54pp), with ts transcription, recording his service with the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards (Guards Division) in France, September 1915 to November 1918. Actions are summarily recorded, but notable incidents include the Christmas Truce of 1915, and tunnelling operations at Laventie November 1915 and on the Somme August 1916. He was an officer's orderly from July 1917 onwards. Together with photocopies of a photograph of a squad of Guardsmen under training in January 1915 and a ts address (3pp) to the Guards Division from its GOC, Major General T G Matheson, on 11 November 1918 commending their actions in the final days of the war.
Cataloguer CH
Catalogue date 1980-02-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tate, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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