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Description: | Bound ts volume (128pp) compiled and written by his father and recounting his service during the First World War through letters and later narrative, covering his service as a Lieutenant with the 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (167th Brigade, 56th Division) on the Western Front from 1917 until his demobilisation in 1919, describing his duties as a Lewis Gun instructor, daily life in the trenches and ongoing skirmishes with the Germans, including shelling and gas attacks. Also included is a ms account (5pp) written by Larkin 55 years after the close of the war, with further descriptions his trench experience and clashes with the Germans; and a map of the British battlefront with annotations by Larkin marking where he served.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-05-23 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Larkin, W R E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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