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JOHNSTON (Stanley R.)
Memories of World War One 1914-1918.
[iii]+26pp. dup. typescript (rectos only), approx. 20 photos., A4 format, retained in stiff card covers with paper label to front.
#67438
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Privately circulated personal recollections of a Canadian who proceeded overseas in Dec. 1915 with the Canadian Army Service Corps (CASC, dubbed: Come And Shovel Coal) in the 3rd Canadian Division; arrived in England & spent two months at Bramshott Camp until posted to France in Feb. 1916. He provides an interesting description of their reception in England & of conditions on farms in rural France, & of ASC work taking provisions from railhead to battalion HQs. In May 1917 he discovered that as he was a pre-war University student he was entitled to apply for a commission, accordingly was sent to Bexhill for officer training & returned to France in September. Posted to the 78th Bn. CEF in the 9th Brigade, 4th Division, he took over command of Number 4 Platoon & served in the line at Ypres &c., describing the routine of relief & other events, including being gassed, with observations on the nature of war &c. interspersed. Reproduction of photos. as photocoipies reneders them very indistinct, altough still of interest, o/w VG. See illustrations on our website.
£85
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