Description: | Photocopied ms account (84pp) of his experiences while serving with the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (10th Brigade, 4th Division) between 1914 and 1918, first on the Western Front and then in the Middle East, providing excellent detail on the battles at Dickebusche, St. Eloi, Ypres, Second Ypres, Armentieres, Hoopline, the Somme, Salonika, Strumer Valley, Gaza, Jerusalem and Haifa; including hand drawn maps of the battle areas and his views on troop movements, the conditions in the trenches with all the dead and dying, the aftermath of the fighting, deaths of comrades and close calls.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-11-22 |