Certificate of Employment of Serg. Charles W. Carr

Item

Title

Certificate of Employment of Serg. Charles W. Carr

Identifier

9190.cpd

Subject

Carr, Charles Woodward

Abstract

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.

Date

February 1919

Date Created

1919-02-01

Temporal Coverage

1919-02-28

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Official document

number of pages

2

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Alun Edwards (Powys Archives submissions day)
Tony Carr

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford