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Description: | Ts memoir (2 volumes, 418pp) including extracts from letters and diaries covering his enlistment and training in Canada (December 1914 - May 1915) with the 28th Battalion, 95th Saskatchewan Rifles (later 28th North-West Battalion, 6th Brigade, 2nd Canadian Contingent), his journey to the United Kingdom and training before posting to the Western Front (June - September 1915), his journey to England for medical treatment (ca September 1916) and eventual grading as unfit for military service and return to Canada (September 1917), with good notes on reactions to the outbreak of war among Canadians, the difficulties of training in the severe Canadian winters, the hazards of his sea journey across the Atlantic (May 1915) and discontent among the Battalion waiting to be posted to France, his work at the military hospital in Folkestone following his return as an invalid from the Front, his experience of air raids on the south coast of England (1916 - 1917) and the difficulties he experienced later in Canada as a disabled ex-serviceman; with many photographs, postcards, poetry, mementoes, letters and newspaper cuttings including humorous descriptions of his dug-out and trenches, and a nominal roll compiled by him of men of the 28th Battalion (1917). Also with the collection are photographs and postcards relating to his training and service (8 items) and photographs, official papers and ts notes (9 items) relating to the service of his brothers, Captain E F B Wyatt DSO (South Lancaster Regiment, killed at Hazebrouck in January 1916), and 2nd Lieutenant B W J Wyatt (Leicestershire Regiment). A volume describing his experiences in action in France is not included in the collection.
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 2006-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wyatt, A E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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