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52419: Service Record and Diary with images of Andrew Watts, Armoured Cars and Motor Machine Guns

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Contains brief summary of my grandfather's wartime service as a motorcycle despatch rider in Duke of Westminster's Armoured Car Division and motor machine gunner in Motor Machine Gun Corps, plus extracts from his diary on training, volunteering, active service and the horror of the trenches. Also an image of the embroidery of his unit badge which he did whilst recovering in hospital after losing his leg.

Editor's Comment: Gunner Andrew James Rudolf Watts, No. 2 Squadron, Royal Naval Armoured Car Division (raised by the Duke of Westminster), later Machine Gun Corps (Motors), service no. 2080.

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Identifier

4771.pdf| GWA_3309_AJR_Watts.pdf|

Creator

Watts, Andrew James Rudolf

Subject

Watts, Andrew James Rudolf

Date

1915 - 1919

Date Created

01/01/1915

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1919

Source

Multiple

Medium

Text: Transcription

Type

Multiple

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Sarah Bianchi

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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