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Description: | 159 well-written letters (June 1915 - February 1919) to his aunt, while serving as a private with 31st Divisional Signal Company, RE, largely of a personal nature but also describing briefly, his training in 1915, conditions on a troopship in the Mediterranean (January 1916), training and living conditions in Egypt (until March 1916) and in France behind the lines (until February 1919), an air raid on his HQ (3 April 1916), the effect of artillery (12 April 1916), the armistice (15 November 1918) and his respect for the infantry; together with 7 ms letters from a friend, two photographs of him in uniform, a Home Guard certificate of proficiency (1943), a Home Guard certificate of service (1944), a postcard album of Egyptian, French, Dutch and various First World War scenes and other postcards of various English, French and Belgian scenes, three Army instructional handbooks (1938 - 1942) and one guidebook of St John's Cathedral, Salford. The letters are notable chiefly for his philosophical thoughts of life and the First World War and the evidence that he was well read.
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Catalogue date 1986-05-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Engineers British Army 31st Divisional Signal Company | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Barlow, G R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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