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Description: | Ms memoir (90pp) in diary form, written up in February 1915 of his experiences while serving in the 1st Regiment de Grenadiers in the Belgian army in which he describes his conscription and initial training September 1913 - January 1914, his garrison service in Brussels, January - July 1914, then mobilisation and active service fighting the Germans before Antwerp, and with British and French troops near Ghent and at Pervyse where he was wounded in October 1914 and brought to a hospital in Richmond, Surrey, at which point the account ends.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1986-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stein, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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