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Description: | Ts memoir (76pp) covering his service with the 1/5th Battalion London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) (11th Brigade, 4th Division until February 1916, then 169th Brigade, 56th Division) on the Western Front during the First World War, including involvement in the Battles of Second Ypres and the Somme (where he was seriously wounded on 1 July 1916), and his years as a senior civil servant at the Air Ministry in the 1930s and the Ministry of Aircraft Production in the Second World War, together with some notes on sonnets written by a British officer taken prisoner at Kut, an ms recollection of the March 1918 retreat by Private W A Hoyle of the 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (5th Brigade, 2nd Division), papers and photographs concerning the VAD hospital at Cranbrook, Kent, 1914 - 1918, and notes on the Aluminium Bungalow, 1945 - 1948.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1976-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 11th Brigade London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) 4th Division British Army 1/5th (City of London) Battalion 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers 169th Brigade 56th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Russell, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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