posted on 2024-01-12, 09:30authored byLest We Forget Project Team
A personal account of wartime England, of a soldier's training in late 1917/early 1918, and then of action in France and Belgium, of the army of occupation in the Rhineland, and then of return to life in post-war England.
History
Name of contributor(s)
Georgia Clarke, granddaughter
Subject of the story/individual the object(s) relate to
Francis William Clarke (22 Dec 1897-2 Apr 1992), RFA/RHA No. 222995
Date(s) the event(s) in the story took place
1917 - 1919
Location(s) where the event(s) in the story took place
The Western Front and the Rhineland
Object(s)
A handwritten account by Frank Clarke of his wartime and immediate post-war experiences, written in 1967. I have included three wartime photographs.