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Description: | Extensive collection of (circa 220) ms letters written to to Mr and Mrs White from ex pupils of Sharow School, Yorkshire, describing their training in Ripon and service in Egypt, France and Italy (April 1915 - February 1919). The most notable correspondents are Arthur S B Hubbard, 218 Company, 31st Divisional Train ASC describing training in Ripon, caring for the horses, accidents involving his company and their horses, his move to Fovant, Salisbury, and voyage to Egypt on SS IONIC (January 1916) where he writes about enemy air attacks, the inhospitable conditions of living in the desert including sandstorms and flies, his visit to a mosque and Christian churches, Cairo and Jaffa, and the fall of Gaza (November 1917); Private Dickinson of the 51st Signal Company (1916 - 1918), William Weir MC of the 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders (1917 - 1918) and Private David Skinner of the 4th Black Watch (1916 - 1917) describing life in France and the trenches, with Skinner mentioning a working party, bombardments and life behind the lines. The collection includes postcards from Egypt, Italy and France, and Christmas cards from the Black Watch and the Gordon Highlanders.
Cataloguer MP | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | White, D A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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