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Description: | Ts memoir (52pp) including an account of his First World War service in the 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (138th Brigade, 46th Division) enlisting in November 1914 and reaching the battalion in August 1915 at Hill 60 before moving in October 1915 to Hulluch where he was gassed by British gas in the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, being evacuated by hospital barge to Boulogne before transferring to hospital in the UK in Essex, in June 1916 he returned briefly to the battalion but was evacuated sick and returned to hospital in Glasgow, in August 1916 he transferred to the MGC, joining No 203 Company at Belton Park, Grantham as an NCO having undergone a training course at Harrowby Camp, the company was attached to the 66th Division and after an inspection by King George V left with it for France in March 1917 entering the line near Cuinchy, in the summer of 1917 he refused a commission in the Tank Corps becoming acting QMS instead and the Division moved to Nieuport in July and to Ypres in September to take part in the Third Battle of Ypres, in January 1918 he returned to the UK as instructor at Grantham where he remained until the end of the war, giving good descriptions of life in training camps in England and the various sectors of the front including rats and other miserable conditions of the trenches, swimming patrols off the coast, German POWs taken at Ypres in 1917, the relaxation of Christmas 1917 and morale being helped by singing, and also his business during the Second World War storing and distributing ration books in the Lincolnshire area, moving blitzed London families, and as an area controller for the Ministry of War Transport controlling official traffic in the county, including a reference to a local WVS team going to Coventry in November 1940 to staff a canteen after the big German raid on the city.
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Catalogue date 1988-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Machine Gun Corps 1/5th Battalion 138th Brigade British Army Lincolnshire Regiment 203rd Company 46th Division 66th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hunt, F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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