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Description: | Two volumes of ts memoir (202pp and 179pp) covering his service with a Divisional Ammunition Column and then with the 150th Brigade RFA on the Western Front during the First World War, April 1917 - November 1918, describing the lack of friendliness in the Ammunition Column, the dreariness of battle areas, his eagerness to experience being under fire and then transfer to the RFA Brigade where he describes his duties, his reaction to heavy shellfire in Ypres, posting to a quiet area near Peronne where he spent his time horse riding and enjoying the countryside until the German attack and their retreat through Combles, the Somme battlefield, Maricourt, and crossing the River Ancre to Lavieville where his commander, Major Bingley, was wounded, his posting back to Ypres to await a German attack and then to Villers Bretonneux on the Somme where he describes a successful Allied attack, his involvement in supporting the American attack on the Hindenburg Line and then on the Beaurevoir Line where he acted as liaison officer between the Battery and the 20th Australian Battalion and was temporarily blinded, mentioning meeting French civilians and their reaction to liberation, and the sense of anti-climax at news of the Armistice.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-20 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Field Artillery British Army 150th Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Campbell, Patrick James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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