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Description: | Ms diary (ca 1919) and very varied scrapbook relating to his service as Machine Gun Officer with the 17th Brigade, August 1914 - October 1916, and XIV Corps, November 1916 - February 1917; as GSO II to the 14th Division and XV Corps, March - December 1917; then in command of the 14th Battalion Machine Gun Corps until the end of the war and as instructor for the American 77th Division, April - June 1918. Together with an ms transcript of a very good letter written by Private Firks of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards (4th Guards Brigade, 2nd Division) describing the Battle of the Aisne (25 November 1914), editions of the "New Church" and "Wipers Times" for 1916, and material relating to his duties as Head Warden for Chiddingstone in Kent, 1939 - 1945, including an ms diary and maps of V-weapon raids, invasion precautions and bomb census notebook, and orders regarding Emergency Food Organisation and Bomb Reconnaissance.
Cataloguer BAH
Catalogue date 1976-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Meade-Waldo, E R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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