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Description: | A collection of official and semi official forms, letters, reports, recommendations, telegrams and other similar items relating to his service with the Royal Field Artillery, including service in France with 'A' Battery 79th Brigade RFA (formerly 247th Battery) (17th Division) to March 1916, 1205th West Lancashire Battery (3rd Provincial Battery) 12th Brigade RFA (67th Division) in Norfolk from June 1916, with promotion to Captain in August 1916, serving at the 68th Divisional HQ (March - April 1918) before taking up a Staff appointment at the War Office (May - July 1918), as a GSO 3 with the Thames and Medway Garrison at Chatham (July 1918 - January 1919), and his demobilisation (1919). Of interest are a signal ordering musical celebrations for the Armistice, and an offer to help drive food vehicles during the 1919 Railway Strike. Together with a letter from George (possibly F G C Morris) of 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) aboard RMS ARAGON en route for Egypt (12pp, September 1914) complaining about the discomforts of life on the troopship and about the behaviour of the men and officers of the Manchester Regiment also aboard, stating that the Lancashire men were 'dirty and untidy and have bad manners'; also included are printed certificates and cards relating to Politzer's Second World War service as a fire fighter and Fire Guard Sector Captain with St Marylebone Fire Prevention in London, and as a Street Leader in the London Invasion Defence Organisation (1941 - 1944).
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 79th Brigade 17th Division Royal Field Artillery 247th Battery British Army 1205th (West Lancashire) Battery (3rd Provincial Battery) 67th Division 12th Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Politzer, Herbert Edwin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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