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Trench raid notes of Charles W. Carr: password FLEET

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AuthorCarr, Charles Woodward
TitleTrench raid notes of Charles W. Carr: password FLEET
NotesPage 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 Date19th August 1917
Creation placeFrance
File typeImage
Item sourceLeaf
Item mediumPaper
ContentOther
CataloguerRichard Marshall
FilenameGWA_3507_TrenchRaidNotes19170819query.jpg
CopyrightThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repositoryThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor NameAlun Edwards (Powys Archives submissions day)
Contributed on the behalf ofTony Carr
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/4934