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Description: | Short ts memoir (4pp) of his time with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War, focusing mainly on his involvement in building the framework for what would become a railway mounted gun but also recalling briefly his enlistment in Bury St Edmunds and the training he received in Yorkshire and then Dunfermline in early 1915, accompanied with a ms description (2pp) of the capabilities and maintenance of the 15" railway mounted gun with a variety of other documents relating to his service including; 250 aircraft recognition cards, a certificate in signalling, an exam paper with questions about signalling, a pocket diary containing a sparse amount of notes and figures, a hearing notice and the subsequent decision regarding his application for exemption from military service in April 1917, letters providing character references, his certificate of exemption dated 12 July 1917, several passes giving permission for leave, as well as photographs of him and his friends in uniform and also a number of images of the previously detailed 15" railway mounted gun.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-10-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unwin, F W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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