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Description: | An incomplete ms memoir (72pp), with ts transcription, written July 1921, detailing his service in the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) (11th Brigade, 4th Division), describing his enlistment and training, his work as a batman and subsequent return to the ranks at Ypres (June 1915), his first battle experiences (July 1915), his involvement in the opening day of the Battle of the Somme (July 1916), the effects of phosgene gas on the men and the number of casualties that resulted from a gas attack, his transfer to the 11th Company MGC (August 1916) and his training for and involvement in the opening day of the Battle of Arras (April 1917); also an ms diary (36pp), with ts transcription, which he kept during his journey to India as part of the 8th Battalion MGC (January - March 1920), in which he describes his duties at base camp and on board the boat, and describes in clinical detail his sexual observations and advice, as well as 10 photographs and postcards which were removed from dead German soldiers.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-07-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pfeffer, R W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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