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Description: | Notebook containing an ms account (48pp) of his service as a clerk with the Army Service Corps, July 1916 - February 1919, describing in brief terms his movements and duties, including his training at Aldershot (October 1916); posting to ASC Records at Woolwich (November 1916 - May 1917); to 82nd (Training Reserve) Battalion at Gosforth (May - July 1917); attachment to the North Staffordshire Regiment at Wallsend near Newcastle for further training (July - September 1917); and his crossing to France in September 1917 to be posted to the 2/5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment TF (176th Brigade, 59th Division) and from March 1918 the 1/5th Battalion (137th Brigade, 46th Division); of most interest for the references to his evacuation to various hospitals in France and Britain, initially with a hand wound caused by barbed wire (November 1917 - March 1918) and later suffering from bronchitis (November 1918).
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2000-03-14 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Moss, T R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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