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Description: | Photocopied ts account (13pp) describing his service on the Western Front with the 4th Battalion The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) (8th Brigade, 3rd Division until November 1915, then 63rd Brigade, 21st Division), March 1915 - March 1916, and on the staff of 63rd Brigade HQ (21st Division until July 1916, then 37th Division), March 1916 - 1918, containing interesting references to his enlistment in March 1915, his arrival in the trenches and the conditions he found there, several narrow escapes from danger, the common soldiers' habit of stealing supplies, his observance at a distance of the Battles of the Somme (July 1916) and Arras (April 1917), and rivalry with French soldiers during preparations for a Divisional Transport Show; together with a photocopied ts account (6pp) of his experiences as an ARP Warden in the London borough of Greenwich during the Second World War, describing pre-war ARP provisions, the fear induced by V-weapons, and the destruction of his own home by bombing.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1998-12-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Mulliss, F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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