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Description: | Ms and ts transcriptions of his memoir (27pp) recording his military service in Guernsey and then France during the First World War (containing few dates as the memoir seems to have been written some years after the events he describes), starting with the mobilisation of the Royal Guernsey Militia on the outbreak of the war and continuing with his joining the Royal Garrison Artillery in November 1914, training at Gosport and Plymouth, his journey to the Western Front in December 1915 and then the duties he preformed there as a range finder and signaller until he was posted to a Field Survey Company of the Royal Engineers, describing how he was involved in intelligence operations locating enemy machine gun positions as well as his first impressions of the trenches, the disconcerting noise of gunfire and the insubstantial rations he received; together with a ms and ts transcription of his diary (8pp) kept during his time as part of the North Russia Relief Force, 3 July - 10 October 1919, relating his embarkation to Russia and then the different nationalities and cultures he came across as he travelled throughout the country repairing railway lines and testing explosives.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-12-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Crewe, W C G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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