Trench raid notes of Charles W. Carr: password FLEET
| Title |
Trench raid notes of Charles W. Carr: password FLEET
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|---|---|
| Author |
Carr, Charles Woodward
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| Notes |
Page torn from a notebook, "Raid Operations" written by Sergeant Charles W. Carr, of 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on August 19th. If this was written in 1917 then it is just 2-3 days before Charles was seriously wounded - shot in the legs by machine gun bullets - during the the attack of the 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on Pond Farm during the battle of Paschendale.
Part of large collection of photos and memoribilia relating to Serjeant 3091 (later 240965) Charles Woodward Carr, 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment - kept by Mrs Gill Porter and Mr Tony Carr of their father. |
| Item date |
19th August 1917
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| Creation place |
France
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| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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| Filename |
GWA_3507_TrenchRaidNotes19170819query.jpg
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| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Alun Edwards (Powys Archives submissions day)
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| Contributed on the behalf of |
Tony Carr
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Collection
Citation
“Trench raid notes of Charles W. Carr: password FLEET,” by Carr, Charles Woodward. The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/4934.
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