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Description: | Ts memoir (60pp), written in 1936, recording his work with the YMCA, June 1915 – April 1917, also covering his service as a gunner and then a 2nd Lieutenant with various batteries of the Royal Field Artillery stationed in Italy and then France, April 1917 – April 1919, beginning with an account of how he was in Austria before the war when Franz Ferdinand was buried (July 1914), his inability to enlist or gain a commission due to his ill health, continuing with the duties he performed at a number of YMCA canteen huts in England then France near Etaples and Abbeville (October 1915) also outlining his transfer to the Royal Field Artillery, his subsequent training at Weedon in Northamptonshire (April 1917), the brief period he spent in Italy as part of the 5th Division ammunition column (January – March 1918) before returning to France where he joined the 84th (Howitzer) Battery RFA (30 April 1918) stationed at Nieppe, his reaction to living under fire, his opinions of some of the officers he served alongside and his wounding in action (23 October 1918) which resulted in his return to England soon after, together with ts transcriptions of five letters (39pp) he wrote to his family, 30 January – 10 November 1918, mainly echoing the experiences he mentions in his memoir as well as ts notes (23pp) concerning the history of the 84th Battery RFA.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Field Artillery British Army Young Men's Christian Association | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Neal, Arthur Westall | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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