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Description: | Interesting and detailed ms journal (224pp), based on contemporary diaries and letters and with supporting photographs, maps and documents, covering his service as a private in the 2/10th (Scottish) Battalion The King's (Liverpool) Regiment in the United Kingdom, August - December 1914, as a junior officer in the 16th and later 17th Battalions Cheshire Regiment in the UK, December 1914 - May 1916, as a company commander with the 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (74th Brigade, 25th Division) in France immediately prior to and during the Somme offensive in which he was wounded at La Boisselle, June 1916 - November 1917, and with the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment (15th Brigade, 5th Division) in Italy, December 1917 - March 1918, and in France, April - September 1918, when he was again wounded after taking part in heavy fighting in the Nieppe Forest and on the Somme.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1977-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 74th Brigade 15th Brigade 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment 5th Division 2/10th (Scottish) Battalion British Army King's (Liverpool Regiment) 16th Battalion 13th Battalion 17th Battalion 25th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ferguson, L I L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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