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Description: | Ts account (32pp) covering his service as an adjutant with the 105th Company Machine Gun Corps (105th Brigade, 35th Division) on the Western Front, July 1915 - April 1917, containing good descriptions of his training with the 14th Battalion Rifle Brigade based near Purfleet, Essex before his transfer to the MGC, his arrival in France and involvement in the Battle of the Somme (July 1916), the duties and tactics of a machine gunner, conditions in the trenches and the intense cold, the friendship he enjoyed with French officers, and his billets in Arras and the use of cellars under the town by German spies. Also held with the collection is a ts transcription (31pp) of letters written to him by fellow soldiers from various theatres of war, November 1915 - January 1919, which include references to postal censorship, service life in Egypt and hostility towards the RAF in Ireland; plus a ts transcription (21pp) of the official War Diary for No 105 Machine Gun Company, 11 May - 15 November 1916.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1999-05-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hodgkinson, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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