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Description: | Word-processed ts transcription (101pp) of a memoir recording his service, probably with the 6th Battalion Northampton Regiment (54th Brigade, 18th Division) on the Western Front during the First World War, containing good descriptions of Army life for an ordinary private soldier, from his recruitment and initial training with the 3rd Battalion in the United Kingdom through to arrival in France in January 1916 and involvement in the Battles of Vimy Ridge, Third Ypres and the final Allied advance in September 1918, plus interesting references to the looting of German shops in Britain, trench conditions, inspections for lice, the danger of landmines and the art of tunnelling, Christmas celebrations, and his final wounding in the 1918 advance and struggle to get back to the Allied lines.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1998-03-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lewis, A W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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