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First World War memoir of Edward E Miller [textual record]

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Date:

1914-1918.

Reference:

2015-01648-1

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2015-01648-1

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4870654

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Date(s):

1914-1918.

Place of creation:

Manitoba

Extent:

1 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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This accession contains an 82-page handwritten memoir of the First World War by sergeant Edward E. "Edd" Miller, service number 422827. Miller entitled this document, which he wrote sometime after the war, "My experiences during the Great War, 1914-1918."

Miller was born in Lambton County, Ontario on 19 October 1886. He attested in Winnipeg on 23 April 1915. He served initially with A Company, the Winnipeg Grenadiers, and subsequently with the 8th Battalion, Winnipeg Rifles, known as the "Little Black Devils."

Miller's memoir spans his entire wartime service. He describes recruiting, medical examinations, military bureaucracy, drilling, sports, the ocean passage to Britain, life at Shorncliffe camp, his first impressions of France, soldiers' songs, Christmas, life in the trenches and behind the lines, tanks in action at Courcellette, the fighting at Albert, the death of friends, leave in London and his personal experiences of taking part in attacks.

Miller was wounded at least three times and returned to Winnipeg on 8 February 1917.

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