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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account (103pp), written in 1973, detailing his army service as a boy bugler with the 19th Battalion and 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment (September 1914) and then on active service with the 2/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment (199th Brigade, 66th Division), initially training in the United Kingdom at Southport, Crowborough, Colchester and Wyvenhoe, before embarking for the Béthune sector of the Western Front (February 1917) where he was put in charge of an ammunition dump, describing his involvement in a two-company attack, brief service at Dunkirk, how he was sent ahead of his battalion to Passchendaele in order to locate billets and acquire rations, his presence in the front line during the German spring offensive (21 March 1918) when all his comrades were killed, his capture and imprisonment behind German lines, his escape from the prisoner of war camp in September 1918 and, after interrogation, his return home to the UK.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cain, C A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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