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Description: | Photocopy of a ts. memoir (128pp), covering the 1912 - 1918 period, describing his service as a Lance-Corporal with 1/4th Battalion The Royal Scots (156th Brigade, 52nd Division; formed composite battalion with 1/7th Battalion 6 July 1915 - 8 January 1916) in the Signalling section from March 1916, mentioning his education and work in the Civil Service (1912 - July 1915); enlistment and training (July 1915 - November 1915); voyage to (November 1915), and life and conditions on, Gallipoli at Cape Helles, including the evacuation (November 1915 - January 1916) and Egypt (January-April 1916), especially Cairo, and a signallers' course at Zeitoun; life and conditions, and action against the Turks, in Sinai, including the Battle of Romani (April-December 1916), El Arish, Palestine, including the Second Battle of Gaza (April 1917), the preparations for, and the Third Battle of Gaza (October-November 1917), the advance to Jaffa, the capture of Jerusalem (December 1917), the crossing of the River Auja; the journey from Alexandria, via Marseilles, to the Western Front (April 1918); the life and conditions in France; action at Vimy Ridge; a period of leave; the Allied advance 1918 and his time after the armistice until demobilisation in January 1919.
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Catalogue date 1987-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Scots British Army 1/4th Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Loudon, Robert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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