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Description: | Self-centred, over-written and not entirely reliable ts account (22pp), with a few additional documents, covering his service in the ranks of the 9th Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (28th Brigade, 9th Division) from enlistment on the outbreak of war until he was wounded by a sniper on the Somme; the narrative's best features are the accounts of the Battalion's abortive attack at Loos in September 1915, of fraternisation with the Saxons opposite at Christmas 1915 and of the fighting for Longueval on the Somme in 1916: there is also a disparaging anecdote about Churchill as a battalion commander on the Western Front. A postscript (6pp) describes the writer's association in England in 1918 - 1919 with Dr Ian Mackenzie in an experimental treatment for men suffering from war neurasthenia, and his long struggle to obtain a proper disability pension for his war wounds.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1979-11-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Downes, B W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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