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Description: | Ms diary (188pp) kept by him during his service with the 13th Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment) (9th Brigade, 3rd Division) on the Western Front, primarily documenting the daily activities of his platoon including time at the musket range, drilling, parades, inspections, trench digging, guarding German prisoners, bayonet fighting and some mention of being at the front line in September 1918; he was killed in action on 11 October 1918. Also included are 6 photographs of him in uniform, a photograph of his grave, a photocopied report on 'Operations for Actions' for his Battalion around La Targette and Forenville, a photocopied war diary for August and October 1918 and 3 photocopied pages about the Battle of Cambrai with maps.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-10-24 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 9th Brigade British Army King's (Liverpool Regiment) 13th Battalion 3rd Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gould, Philip Leslie | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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