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Description: | Photocopied ms memoir (60pp), August 1914 - December 1917, describing how he was a schoolboy staying in France when the First World War broke out, returned to the United Kingdom and attempted to join the Army, gaining a commission in the Cheshire Regiment in February 1915 and serving with the 14th Battalion Cheshire Regiment in Birkenhead, April - July 1915 and in Kinmel, July - December 1915, after which he was sent to France to join the 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (56th Brigade, 19th Division) and saw action during the Battle of the Somme where he was wounded and sent back to England, where after a period in hospital he joined the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Cheshire Regiment and was briefly an instructor on a signalling course, February - May 1917, at which time he was posted back to the 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment and took part in the Battle of Messines, June 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres, August - November 1917.
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Catalogue date 1985-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Mallalieu, J R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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