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Description: | 2 original and 26 ms transcripts of letters (58pp), March 1916 - February 1919, describing his period in command of the 1/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (145th Brigade, 48th Division), first on the Western Front, including service in the Battle of the Somme and Third Ypres, with the attack on Langemarck (16 August 1917) described in detail, and then in Italy from November 1917 until the Armistice, ending hostilities in Austria at Val Sugano, with frequent references to the weather and its effect on trench life, shelling and, in Italy, the buildings of the towns, the last letter (12 January 1919) describing a battalion Christmas party given for Italian children. Also a collection of miscellaneous papers relating to the war work of his sister, Miss Joan Clarke, including an order to attend a VAD interview (February 1916) and an ms copy of a letter describing conditions in Holzminden POW camp (April 1918).
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Catalogue date 1988-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army Royal Berkshire Regiment 48th Division 1/4th Battalion 145th Infantry Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clarke, R J (CMG DSO TD) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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