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Description: | Two letters to his mother written when he was was serving, in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as Assistant Adjutant General at GHQ Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, the first (ms carbon copy, 5pp), dated 24 April 1915, from Lemnos describing in detail the plans for the Allied landings on the Gallipoli peninsula the following day and the likelihood of their success and the second (ms, 2pp), dated 28 April 1915, referring to the first landing as 'a desperate performance', giving some account of the very fierce fighting before the Cape Helles beachheads could be secured and concluding 'I think now we have got through our most difficult job ...'
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1999-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Beynon, H L N | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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