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Description: | A collection of 16 ms letters written home to his mother and sisters while a private in No 11 Platoon, 'C' Company, 1/14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish), London Regiment (168th Brigade, 56th (London) Division) (May - November 1916), describing burying a comrade prior to their departure to France, his experiences on the Western Front, with details of the conditions in the trenches and working as a batman, attending a instructional course on bomb throwing, requests for parcels, seeing a fellow soldier shoot himself in the foot to escape the trenches, taking a German trench (July 1916), and being treated for shell shock after being struck by shrapnel while retiring, writing from East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich, describing going over the top, being under 'strict orders not to take prisoners' and shooting dead three wounded Germans, details of the hospital, the wounded and his treatment, hearing that there were only '121 fit men left out of 1200 after the attack', and transfer to a Convalescent Hospital in Eastbourne. Together with two postcard photographs of Hubbard in uniform (one as a Corporal), and two ms letters (September - October 1916) from a Mrs Lindsay asking him for any information about her husband, Major F H Lindsay, who, unbeknownst to her, was killed in July 1916. Hubbard took his own life shortly after the war and shell shock was cited as a contributing factor.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 1/14th Battalion (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish) British Army London Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hubbard, Arthur H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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