ACKRELL Philip George Private 81398

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Surname: ACKRELL;

Forename(s): Philip George;

Initials: PG;

Number: 81398;

Rank: Private;

Born in: Plymouth;

Enlistment Date: 01-Aug-1916;

Resided in: Totnes;

Previous Battalion: 3 of;

Previous Regiment: Dorset Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 26-Nov-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 62 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 58 Bn;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 8 Bn;

Date abroad: 06-May-1917;

Theatre of War: 1;

Discharge Date: 31-Mar-1921;

Other Data: War Office Casualty List 7/5/1918 (shrapnel wd, thigh)
Died 1977
see EmmaGee No12 Sept 1986
BD 46, Dec 1965
Wrote: My Life in the MGC - published by A Stockwell Ltd, 1966
OCA member 207 Victoria Rd, St Budeaux, Plymouth PL15 2DQ
Deceased Oct 1977
private papers in collection IWM (11955):
Microfilm copy of a ts account (36pp), undated, describing his service on the Western Front with the 62nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps (62nd Division), May 1917 - March 1918, and the 58th Battalion MGC (58th Division), March 1918 - 1919, containing references to his enlistment in August 1916 at the age of 18, his anticipation of being in action, duties as Company runner, trench conditions, involvement in the Battle of Cambrai (20 November 1917), his wounding during the opening days of the German spring offensive (March 1918), his posting to the Army of Occupation in Germany where he describes the nature of the German people, and a brief reference to his service in India during 1920. Together with a second undated ms account (56pp) describing his service with the 85th Command Ammunition Depot at Aubigny, France, September 1939 - May 1940, referring to his duties as storekeeper, living conditions, his involvement in the retreat to Dunkirk following the German invasion, French refugees, the intensive German aerial bombing, and his evacuation in the destroyer HMS VIMY (30 May 1940); then his service back in the United Kingdom as a storeman at ammunition depots in Corsham in Wiltshire, Wembley in Middlesex and Woodford in Essex, the heavy air raids on London and Plymouth, the destruction of his own house in Devonport by enemy bombing, his discharge on medical grounds in July 1944 and work as a civilian clerk at various ordnance depots in Devon until the end of 1946.
Catalogue date 2002-04-15
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