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Description: | Ts memoir (170pp) covering his service as a gunner in No 315 Battery Royal Field Artillery (RFA) on the Western Front, 1915 - 1919, including details of his training, appalling conditions in the trenches, action on the first day of the Somme, being gassed during the Battles of Messines Ridge, and his personal experience during the March 1918 retreat; appended is another ts memoir (34pp) in which he describes his struggles to find work after the war, and an ms diary account (70pp) of part of his second spell in France, October 1917 - May 1918.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1984-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Field Artillery British Army 315th Battery | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pressey, W F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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