10.5287/BODLEIAN6FKF.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Certificate of Employment of Serg. Charles W. Carr (1)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
WdUzzgyu152872
1919-02-01/1919-02-28
2011-12-05 11:28:55.309760
2011
GWA_3501_CertificateEmployment191902.jpg
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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.