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Description: | Five volumes of memoirs (circa 170pp ts) concerning his service in the 1/21st (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), 140th Brigade, 47th Division, during 1915 - 1918, containing good descriptions of his arrival in France in March 1915 and subsequent experiences in the trenches during the Battles of Neuve Chapelle and Festubert, March - May 1915, at Loos, June - September 1915, in the Vimy sector from March 1916 and at the Battle of Messines, June 1917, continuing with an account of his capture at Flers during the 1918 German Spring Offensive and experiences in German captivity as a member of various working parties on the Somme until August 1918 when he escapes, encountering revolutionary German soldiers on his way to Belgium, where he is taken in by a Belgian family; the accounts are largely based on personal experience but also draw on official unit histories, and include a section on soldiers' songs.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1999-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hahn, W J A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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