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Description: | Ts account (126pp) covering principally his service with 8th Battalion, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment (17th Infantry Brigade, 24th Division) on the Western Front near Béthune, April - October 1918 and near Cambrai, October 1918, with useful details of conditions in the trenches and of a German gas attack (October 1918) which resulted in his evacuation to No. 2 Canadian General Hospital at Le Treport, where he remained until the Armistice (pp114-116) as well as interesting references to his dislike of the French (pp10-11, 122) and the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) (pp111-112).
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1974-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 8th Battalion British Army 17th Infantry Brigade 24th Division Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Abraham, Alfred J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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