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Description: | Good ts memoir (50pp) describing his service February 1917 - November 1919 beginning with his enlistment in Glasgow and his training (February 1917 - February 1918) at Dunbar with the 2/1st Ayrshire Yeomanry (9th Cyclist Brigade) before joining the 11th Battalion Royal Scots (27th Brigade, 9th Division) in February 1918 on the Somme with whom he experienced the first part of the German Offensive on 21 March, a move north to Hill 60 at Ypres, the Germans' second attack there in the Battle of the Lys (9 April), the new positions south-west of Meteren (May - July), the capture of Hoegenacker Ridge (18 August) and the final offensive against the German lines from Ypres (September - November) reaching Harlebeke by the day of the armistice, then with the division marching into Germany reaching Cologne before crossing the Rhine and going into billets at Haan (December 1918 - November 1919) with references to the Germans' use of air cover in the March Offensive, his reaction to being told to hold the line at all costs, the behaviour of a shell-shock victim, a stand near Albert with a group of Australian troops, the effects of the Portuguese withdrawal at Messines in April, the conditions at Meteren including gas, shelling, food, Spanish Flu and a visit of King George V, the exploit of Brigadier General B C Freyberg VC (88th Brigade, 29th Division) swimming across the Lys, the surprise of the armistice, the contrasting reaction of the Belgian and German civilians on their march to Haan, his courses at an Army School in Cologne in 1919 and the general lifespan of the army of occupation.
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Catalogue date 1988-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 11th Battalion 9th Division Royal Scots British Army 2/1st Battalion 9th Cyclist Brigade Ayrshire Yeomanry 27th Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jamieson, A J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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