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Description: | Photocopied ts memoir (249pp) of his First World War experiences covering his enlistment in 1914 in the Corps of Guides Militia in Canada; his transfer to the Royal Canadian Dragoons and on the Western Front in the Second Battle of Ypres; his commission and posting to the 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment (21st Brigade, 7th Indian Division) (The Norsets) in the force sent to relieve the siege of Kut, with an account of this abortive attempt; his posting to the 8th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (79th Brigade, 26th Division) in Salonika and involvement in the attack on the Bulgarian lines near Dorian in April 1917; and his transfer to the RFC and, after training in Egypt, posted as a fighter pilot to No 111 Squadron RFC in Palestine where he saw action against German aircraft and the Turkish lines from October 1917 until the end of the war against Turkey in October 1918.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1979-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lighthall, W S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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