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Description: | Ts transcription (73pp) of an extract from his memoir, written in 1973, in which he recalls in lively detail his service as a regular soldier in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (2nd Brigade, 1st Division) on the Western Front, August 1914 - July 1916, with descriptions of his journey to France with the BEF, the rapturous welcome accorded British troops by the French, his experiences at Mons and during the subsequent retreat and during the Battles of Ypres (1914), Aubers Ridge (May 1915) and on the Somme (May - July 1916), where he was seriously wounded a second time and evacuated to the United Kingdom for eventual discharge as an amputee, with interesting references to the hardships of Army life including the lack of food and water and the incidence of frostbite, and details of his successful attempts to avoid being drafted back to France after he was first wounded in May 1915, his wedding while absent without leave and his subsequent arrest as well as mention of his comrades, several of whom were severely mentally unstable.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2006-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rowthorn, H J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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