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HUNT, FREDERICK H

Archive File: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/0818

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Type of record: Archive

Title: HUNT, FREDERICK H

Level: File

Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/0818

Date(s): 1914-1918

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/29050

Collection group(s): Liddle Collection

Description

F Hunt "And Truly Serve: Memoirs" (1980); Notes about memoirs; Summary of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle in April 1989 (tape 935).

Biography or history

Hunt, Frederick H (b 1896). Private (later Sergeant), 2/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, and MGC (Machine Gun Corps). Enlisted Oct 1914 and to France in Aug 1915 as part of the North Midland Division; Rouen, Ypres Salient and Hill 60 (where the trenches were only 60 yards apart); October 1915 gassed at Hohenzollern Redoubt, hospitalised at Bethune; Following return to unit contracted blood poisoning and returned to England; On recovery transferred to the MGC and eventually returned to France where was at La Bassee; Xmas 1917; Returned to Grantham, as an Instructor, in 1918.

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