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Description: | 11 ms letters and cards to his family written between November 1914 and September 1915 while he was serving as a Lance Corporal with the 7th Battalion London Regiment (140th Brigade, 47th Division from May 1915) in the United Kingdom with detailed accounts of training exercises near Watford, Hertfordshire, mention of Army life and Christmas celebrations as well as conditions for himself and civilians on the Western Front after his battalion crossed to France (March 1915), also 8 photographs and his pocket diary for 1915 (164pp) with entries for February - September covering training in Hertfordshire and conditions in the trenches near Bethune and during the Battle of Festubert, together with a notebook with ms entries (3pp), a sketchbook with delightful drawings of rural and Army life in France (7pp and 3 loose sketches), papers relating to his death in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos (25 September 1915) including tributes from three of his comrades and commemorative scrolls, and newspaper cuttings and printed items covering his battalion's war service and casualties.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army Sursham 7th Battalion London Regiment Thomas Kusel | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sursham, Thomas Kusel | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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