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Description: | Privately printed ts memoir (18pp) describing how he volunteered to join the 2/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (2/1st Gloucester and Worcester Brigade, 61st Division) in December 1914 and served in Essex on coastal defence, surviving a Zeppelin raid, before being seconded to the RFC in April 1916, learning to fly with No 5 (R) Squadron RFC, No 47 Squadron RFC, No 28 (R) Squadron RFC, and finally with No 49 Squadron RFC before being posted to No 27 Squadron RFC in France in August 1916, where he flew Martynside aircraft on bombing and escort operations during the Battle of the Somme before being brought down by artillery fire and captured in September 1916, spending the last two years of the war as a prisoner of war in Osnabruck and then Clausthal in Germany.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1972-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 47 Squadron 49 Squadron 2/8th Battalion Royal Air Force British Army Royal Flying Corps 28 Squadron Worcestershire Regiment 5 Squadron 27 Squadron 61st Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Chance, Hugh | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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