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Description: | Ca 130 ms letters written home to his parents covering his service with 'C' then 'E' Company, 19th (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (33rd Division), training during April - December 1915 before active service in France, January - May 1916; at Officers Cadet Training schools, 'C' Company 10th Officers Cadet Battalion, in Scotland and England, June - November 1916; and gazetted to the 3rd Battalion, and then 12th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (October 1916), with details of mainly family matters, but with some references to training as a Private soldier including camp conditions and his cadet training, as well as applications for a commission. Together with other letters, in memoriam notices and commemorative scrolls and certificates relating to his service on the Western Front and his death in action at Sailly Saillisel on 12 February 1917.
Cataloguer JS
Catalogue date 2006-01-31 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 3rd Battalion British Army 19th Battalion 12th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Manchester Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cubbitt-Ireland, Leslie Woodhouse | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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