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Description: | Original ms account (7pp) with ms transcriptions (11pp) of his service with the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (86th Brigade, 29th Division) during the Gallipoli Campaign (April 1915), entitled ‘The Story of the Lancashire Landings’ which was published in the ‘Manchester Weekly Times’, 4 December 1915, recording his leaving England for the Gallipoli Peninsula (March 1915), his boarding the battleship HMS IMPLACABLE (24 April 1915), the preparations for and then his active participation in the landings at Suvla Bay (25 April 1915), which resulted in his wounding and then how he went without proper medical treatment until the following day when he was removed from the beach in the hospital ship HMS SICILIA, including interesting descriptions of the Turkish landscape, the perturbing sound of artillery as well as the copious amount of dead and wounded. M W Phillips was later treated for shell shock when he returned to Manchester.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Lancashire Fusiliers British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Phillips, M W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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