Key Information
Reference code
CHARRINGTON 1/1
Title
Account, [1915-1919], of 12 Royal Lancers service on the Western Front in 1914
Date(s)
- [1915 - 1919] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Handwritten eyewitness account [by Charrington] of the participation of his regiment in operations on the Western Front in 1914, entitled 'With the XII Royal Lancers in 1914: Chapter III, the advance into Flanders and the first battle of Ypres', with details of troop movement, descriptions of soldiers, and first-hand experience of trench warfare. 31pp.