Dangerous work : the memoir of Private George Weeks of the Labour Corps 1917-1919 /
British military labour during the First World War developed from an ad hoc arrangement in 1914 to a Corps in 1918 some 400,000 strong, supported by as many as a million dominion and foreign workers. George Weeks wrote down his experience on squares of wallpaper - and what a record it is. The Somme,...
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Stroud, Gloucestershire :
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| Summary: | British military labour during the First World War developed from an ad hoc arrangement in 1914 to a Corps in 1918 some 400,000 strong, supported by as many as a million dominion and foreign workers. George Weeks wrote down his experience on squares of wallpaper - and what a record it is. The Somme, Passchendaele, Messines Ridge, all feature in George's calm description of his extraordinary experiences. |
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D 546 .W34 2014
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