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Description: | Birthday Scripture Text pocketbook (110pp) containing very brief ms notes covering his service as a private with the 1/20th Battalion London Regiment (141st Brigade, 47th Division) on the Western Front, January - December 1916, with references to his movements across the Front, transfer in June 1916 to the Machine Gun section, involvement in training for the Somme offensive (September 1916), the "decrepit" state of German prisoners from the Somme, and the use of poison gas and tanks; together with a notebook (84pp) containing ms notes on Lewis Gun operation, caricatures and sketches of the trench system, and two postcard photographs showing him in uniform.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1998-10-14 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tracy, A E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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