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Description: | Contemporary ms memoir (18pp), covering the period February 1917 - June 1919, describing his service as a Private in the Lewis Gun Section of 2nd Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (23rd Brigade, 8th Division) on the Western Front, mentioning, in detail, action on the Somme (March - April 1918), where he was taken prisoner (1 April 1918), and his life and conditions as a prisoner of war in German-occupied France and Belgium (giving occasional examples of harsh treatment by his captors) and his time after the armistice to his demobilisation in June 1919.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1987-03-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army 23rd Brigade 8th Division Middlesex Regiment 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Curtis, F R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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