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Description: | Photocopy of an interesting ms journal (151pp and 147pp) covering his experiences as a camouflage officer and artist in the Royal Engineers (December 1916 - March 1919) including good anecdotal details of his first impressions of France, the work at the camouflage factory at Amiens, his experience in the trenches inspecting dummy trees, comments on his fellow officers at the base and his work at the factory painting camouflage, his successful creation of dummy figures to be used at the front and task disguising the aerodrome at St Omer, visits to locations on the Ypres Salient (December 1917), his posting as camouflage officer to 18th Corps at St Quentin (January 1918) and conditions there, his duties disguising defensive positions and preparing tank positions, good details of the German offensive and the atmosphere during the evacuation of his men to Amiens, including a journey down the Somme on a barge loaded with equipment to Abbeville, his posting to the Australian Corps at Villers Bocage (April 1918), conditions there and his duties providing cover for the guns, the establishment of an Australian Camouflage Park and the heavy demand for camouflage, air raids and heavy bombardments, the successful erection of camouflage screens for field guns used during the counter-offensive and reorganisation, the construction of dummy tanks (October 1918), and the general reaction to the Armistice.
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Australian Army Royal Engineers British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stewart, A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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