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Description: | Photocopied ts memoir (223pp) written in the 1930s about his time serving with the Durham Royal Engineers during the First World War, with descriptions of his training in the UK, his duties on the Western Front including improving trenches and making dugouts, fighting at Arras, caring for the wounded at the beginning of the Somme Offensive, Ypres, the maintenance of bridges over the Yser Canal between August and October 1916, German gas attacks, improving the trenches at the La Bassee sector, routine bombing raids, Vimy Ridge, Lens, performing wiring maintenance in No Man's Land, the devastation around Sanctuary Wood, Hellfire Corner and the Menin Road, his brief stint in Italy before returning to the Western Front, fighting at Nieppe and blowing up bridges to prevent a German advance and his service in the Army of the Occupation of the Rhine following the Armistice.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2007-01-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Beattie, F W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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