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Description: | Ms diary (25pp glued into a notebook with an ms transcription, possibly by a parent, opposite) written during his service with the 2/4th Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 18 December 1916 – 21 March 1918, arriving on the Western Front in January 1917 and on working parties in the Ypres sector at Messines Ridge, Kemmel, Logre and Dickebusch, involvement in the Battle of Bullecourt (12 – 15 May 1917), Croisilles (16 June 1917), in the trenches at Havrincourt Wood in front of Cambrai (23 – 30 July 1917), heavy casualties suffered by the Battalion at St Julien on 20 August 1917 as part of the Third Battle of Ypres and again on 26 October 1917, at Langemarck (17 – 24 December 1917), and the German spring offensive on the morning of 21 March 1918. Together with another ms diary (46pp in the same hand as the above transcription) kept by his brother, C H Collis, during service with the 1/13th Battalion London Regiment (The Kensingtons) on the Western Front, July - October 1917, containing some good descriptions of trench warfare including involvement in the Third Battle of Ypres.
Cataloguer AJC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) British Army London Regiment (Kensington) 2/4th (City of London) Battalion 1/13th (County of London) Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Collis, Arthur Leonard | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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