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Description: | Photocopy of a ts account (224pp) based on his diary and letters home, recording his service with the 1st Battalion Queen's Westminster Rifles (18th Brigade, 6th Division) in France, November 1914 - July 1916, describing his journey to St Omer going into trenches near Bois Grenier (20 November 1914) and detailing his daily routine, work in flooded trenches, reading during leisure time in the dug-out, the Christmas Truce, his spell in hospital at Wimereux suffering from insomnia and trench foot and his return to the United Kingdom (20 January 1915), rejoining his unit in Ypres (August 1915) where he describes several improvements including the use of duckboards in trenches, better food and field-kitchens, his involvement in support during the attack on Sanctuary Wood (9 August 1915) before being again taken ill, the feeling of disillusionment with the war among the soldiers (October 1915) before his transfer to the 56th Division in the Somme area (February 1916) where he mentions their training and an attack on German positions at Gommecourt during which he was made a prisoner of war (July 1916).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-14 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 18th Brigade British Army 56th Division 6th Division London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jones, P H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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