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Description: | British sapper served with Royal Engineers Signal Section on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Background in GB: enlisted with 2/1st West Lancashire Signal Coy Royal Engineers in St Helens, Lancashire, 15/Feb/1915; regimental number 7597; uniform; description of training; uniform and equipment; posted to No 2 Section, 171st Bde 57th Div in Kent area; embarked for France, 2/1917. Recollections of operations with Royal Engineers Signal Section on Western Front, 1917-1918: posted to Armentieres sector, France; description of trench system in Houplines and Lys Canal area; memory of trenches named Shaftesbury Avenue and Irish Avenue; story of repairing broken line and sheltering in trench with board reading 'Danger this trench is in full view of the enemy'; description of being wounded in arm by rifle-grenade in Irish Avenue trench, 29/May/1917; medical treatment; posted to Royal Engineers Signals Depot, Abbeville; duties repairing cables; posted to No 4 Section , 124th Bde 41st Div, 3/Jul/1917; description being wounded in attack at Inverness Copse, Ypres, Belgium, 20/Sep/1917; posted to Abbeville and description of duties as instrument repairer in wireless workshop; amusing story of hens; demobilised 3/1919; memories of German POWs; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/Nov/1918. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Franklin, George | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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