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Description: | Microfilm copy of 4 ms diaries (320pp, November 1914 - January 1918); ms extracts from 74 letters home (64pp, May - October 1915) and a ts semi-fictional account entitled 'Duration' (310pp) describing in detail Sheffield University Officer Training Corps in 1914, his commission, his training as a sulbaltern with the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment at Jarrow, crossing the Channel in the troopship NORMANIA in May 1915, his service with the 1st Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment (83rd Brigade, 28th Division) in France during the Second Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Loos, the voyage in SS BORNU to Alexandria, Egypt and then to Salonika in SS ULYSSES, on the Salonika front in 1916, hospitalisation with malaria in September 1916, the voyage home in hospital ships LLANDOVERY CASTLE and WARILDA, his long recovery and discharge from the Army in July 1917 and his return to Sheffield University.
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Catalogue date 1977-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hildred, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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