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Description: | Photocopied ts transcription (10pp) of an account covering his enlistment in August 1914 as a Cambridge University student into the Royal Engineers, training at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham and the RE Training Depot, Aldershot before active service from July 1915 with the 20th Divisional Signal Company (59th Brigade) on the Western Front, describing his signalling duties based at Wavrens, Laventie, and then north of Ypres, while providing references to the signalling network used during the Battle of the Somme (July - September 1916), the buried cable system at Passchendaele (July 1917), and his journey to the Italian front in August 1917 when the account abruptly ends.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1999-07-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sclater, F A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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