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Description: | Interesting ts account (77pp) and a microfilm of an earlier version (79pp) describing his service in the 8th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, The Post Office Rifles 1915 - 1918 and as a Prisoner of War from March 1918 until after the Armistice, first with the 1st line Battalion (140th Brigade, 47th Division) from his disembarkation in March 1915 until his release as a time expired soldier in April 1916 having fought at Givenchy, Festubert, Vermelles, Noeux les Mines, Maroc, and in the Battle of Loos (September 1915) at the Double Crassiers, followed by his hospitalisation after his release in Dundee and his subsequent re-engagement under threat of conscription in October 1916 in the 3rd Battalion for training at Fovant as a Stretcher Bearer, before being sent to the 2nd line Battalion (174th Brigade, 58th Division) in March 1917 on the Somme around Bullecourt, moving north at the end of August for the Third Battle of Ypres in the northern half of the Salient where he was gassed and evacuated to convalesce at Cayeux-sur-Mer before rejoining the battalion in November 1917 and moving back to the Somme in February 1918 where he was captured on the second day of the German Spring Offensive and held first near Darmstadt and then from the end of June near Hamm working in a coal mine before returning to England through Holland, with interesting comments on his various surroundings, his dislike of the war and its miserable conditions, his dangerous but determined work as a stretcher bearer, the devastation of the Ypres battlefield and the privations of a prisoners life, and references to an inspection by General Rawlinson in October 1915 and West Indian soldiers in the Field Ambulance in Poperinghe in September 1917.
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Catalogue date 1988-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 2/8th (City of London) Battalion 140th Infantry Brigade 3/8th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) British Army 58th (London) Division 174th Brigade 1/8th (City of London) Battalion 8th (City of London) Battalion 47th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Young, W E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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