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Description: | Pocket notebook containing a very brief ms summary of his service as a rifleman with the 21st (and from March 1918 2nd) Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps in France and Italy, 1917 - 1918, including a transcript of his medical history sheet detailing his progress following severe shell wounds received at Cambrai in May 1918 up to the amputation of his leg in February 1920, plus a draft of a code used by his son, while serving in the Second World War, to indicate his location. Also held with the collection are a photograph of Beer with his wife and child (ca 1916), plus photocopies (7pp) of official correspondence and forms relating to his wounding, demobilisation and continuing post-war work for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1978-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Beer, S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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