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Description: | 2 ms diaries (113pp) kept by him during his service as a gunner with the 77th Siege Battery RGA on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918, recounting his battery's activity in Beauville, Thiepval, Sailly-au-Bois, Courcelles, Beaumont-Hamel, Messines ridge, and Passchendaele where he was wounded in the chest in July 1917 and sent to hospital in England; following his return to the Front, he was transferred to the Royal Defence Corps on 6 November 1918 where he remained until his demobilisation in 1919. The diaries include good descriptions of gas attacks by the Germans, technical details regarding the operation of his battery and details of the actions taken by the enemy guns.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-09-20 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pymer, A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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