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Description: | Trooper with the 1/1st Battalion Northumberland Yeomanry (7th Division) on the Western Front, describing in detail undertaking cavalry training in England, embarking for Belgium and landing at Zeebrugge, riding into Bruges to a rapturous welcome, marching to Ghent to try and halt German forces and retiring before engaging the enemy, entering Ypres and finding it looted by German patrols, the masses of Belgian refugees, his part in the 1st Battle of Ypres (October - November 1914), having to fight in the infantry lines at Hooge and Zonnebeke and the failure of German forces to press their advantage and allowing the British to hold their lines; together with 3 photocopied photographs of him in uniform and various photocopied press cuttings. Pages 26, 34, 38, 59 and 73 are missing from the photocopy of the memoir.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007 - 11 - 13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Mattison, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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