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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account in two volumes (circa 300pp), with descriptions of his childhood in Edwardian London, service in the 2/18th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) (September 1914 - May 1916) including the Battle of Loos where he was wounded (September - October 1915), joining the Royal Flying Corps, attending a balloon course at Roehampton, service on the Western Front (May 1916 - June 1917), including the Battle of Messines Ridge, and commanding a Kite Balloon Section in Mesopotamia until January 1919, with eyewitness descriptions of military ballooning, of the flight of the airship Nulli Secundus, and meeting Colonel Cody with his man-lifting kites, and travelling to the Continent in the 1920s.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) British Army 2/18th (County of London) Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bateman, P G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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