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Description: | Ts anecdotal memoir (34pp) of his services in the 2nd/6th Battalion, the Manchester Regiment (199th Brigade, 66th Division) in France and Belgium, March 1917 - August (?) 1918, during the Third Battle of Ypres, the German March Offensive in the Somme area, and with 2nd Battalion, the Manchester Regiment (96th Brigade, 32nd Division) during the Allied Advance until wounded by a shell fragment and sent back to England, being discharged as medically unfit in March 1919, and describing conditions in the trenches; being gassed; his clashes with officers; his duties as a sniper and observer.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1987-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 96th Brigade 2/6th Battalion British Army 199th Brigade 32nd Division 66th Division Manchester Regiment 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hall, P R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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