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Description: | Papers relating to his service as an officer with the Highland Light Infantry, including letters sent home between August 1915 and April 1918 covering his training at the Officer's School of Instruction, Stirling, with references to his personal financial situation, his teaching as a Signalling Officer at Edinburgh Hydropathic and his service in France where he mentions reconnoitring trenches and being wounded by bullets during an advance (December 1917) resulting in the amputation of his foot; a copy of the official group photograph from the Officers' School of Instruction (August - September 1915); a ts memoir (11pp) describing his trip to Amiens and the cathedral and his opinions of the battle; press cuttings from the ‘York Herald’ reporting his wounding and that of his brother Malcolm in the Royal Field Artillery (September 1916); and interesting poems entitled ‘1914’, ‘1915’, ‘Xmas Day 1916’ and ‘To-day Thou Shalt Be With Me....Gassed’ (September 1917) all written by Lieutenant Bert Reed of the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), a friend from Darlington Grammar School, who was subsequently killed in France in April 1918.
Cataloguer MP | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) 15th Battalion Highland Light Infantry | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Temple, Gordon Alexander | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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