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Description: | Ms memoir (54pp) of his service as a Private with the 16th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps (Church Lads Brigade) (100th Brigade, 33rd Division) during the First World War, written presumably some time after the events described, evoking his life in the trenches of the Western Front by vividly recalling his training, day to day duties, experiences of dysentery and lice, the constant noise of shell fire and machine guns, the presence of tanks on the battlefield as well as an episode where friendly fire killed and wounded several soldiers, whilst throughout questioning what he was fighting for, also exploring how he was taken prisoner during the German Spring Offensive of 1918, the interrogation he was subjected to immediately after he became a prisoner of war, hostilities between British and Portuguese POWs, the inadequate rations he received behind enemy lines and finally reporting his return to England after the Armistice was announced in November 1918; with a letter (2pp) dated 12 May 1918, concerning his going missing in action, a photograph of him in uniform and contemporary newspaper articles concerning his military service.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-12-21 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Renwick, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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