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Description: | British staff officer served with 23rd Bde Headquarters on Western Front, 1918
REEL 1 Recollections of service as staff officer with 23rd Bde Headquarters in Aisne area, France, 5/1918: story of speeches at lunch with French Colonel having taken over section of line; quiet nature of sector and terrain in Juvincourt sector; circumstances of move of newly formed IX Corps to Aisne front; competition organised by 2nd Bn Middlesex Regt; signs of imminent German offensive; circumstances of move of newly formed IX Corps to Aisne front; signs of imminent German offensive culminating in reports of final preparations from escaped French POWs; guiding 2nd Bn Devonshire Regt into former German reserve dugouts, 26/5/1918; situation and state of morale, 26/5/1918. Account of German offensive, 27/5/1918: commencement and effects of German bombardment in HQ dugout on Bois des Buttes, 01.00; reports from neighbouring brigades; orders to evacuate HQ and subsequent isolated situation; retreat to River Aisne and meeting Brigadier G W St G Grogan at Pontavert. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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