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Description: | A photocopy of a ts account (30pp) entitled 'Memoirs of an Old Contemptible', describing his enlistment with 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (September 1912), transferring to the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (2nd Brigade, 1st Division) which he joined in Belgium (August 1914), being wounded in the first encounter with German troops and returning to England (September 1914), rejoining his regiment in the La Bassee - Cambrin Sector (May 1915), low morale caused by public pronouncement of court martial executions and line charges which were wiped out by machine guns, the Battle of Loos (September - October 1915), moving to the Somme Front in charge of a Lewis Gun Company (July 1916), attempts to capture High Wood, with descriptions of the filthy trenches, being placed in charge of the 1st Divisional Burial Company (October 1917) with descriptions of the grisly business of matching up bodies, transferring to a Divisional Mounted Company attached to 1st Divisional Headquarters (May 1918), and details of some of the racial troubles among Allied troops in Britain in 1919, specifically between West Indians and Americans.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 3rd Battalion 2nd Brigade British Army Royal Sussex Regiment 1st Division 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Marsh Packham, Frederick | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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