10.5287/bodleian6fkf.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford
Certificate of Employment of Serg. Charles W. Carr (1)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
WdUzzgyu152872
1919-02-01/1919-02-28
2011-12-05 11:28:55.309760
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http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A1d00eebb-8fed-46ad-8e38-45dbdb4b224c
Certificate of employment showing Serg. Charles W. Carr (now with 4th Reserve Batt. Gloucestershire Regiment) attended the course to become a Bombing Instructor. He was sent on this course after recovery from being 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.