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Description: | 57 ms letters written home to his parents while serving as a subaltern in the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, August 1916 - November 1918. From August 1916, apart from a long rest period in the United Kingdom from March to October 1918, he was serving on the Western Front and his letters mostly consist of comments on the weather, trench conditions, and the latest food parcel. Swayne seems to have been in a quiet part of the line, and he has little to say about the fighting, except for the occasional aerial battle (e.g. 12 January 1917), nor does he mention any place names. His penultimate letter (9 November 1918) describes the excitement of the final advance, and the Army's triumphant progress through liberated territory. There is also an album of photographs of France in 1919, with some more personal pictures.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2011-05-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Swayne, Roderic | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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