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Description: | 101 ms letters written home to his girlfriend, Emily Margetts, while serving with the 2/15th Battalion London Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own Civil Service Rifles) (179th Brigade, 60th Division) initially training at Longbridge Deverill and Hazeley Down, February - August 1916; then on active service in France, October 1916; in Salonika, November 1916 - June 1917; and in Egypt and Palestine, June 1917 - January 1918; attached to RE Signal HQ in Alexandria as a switchboard operator, February - August 1918; before transfer to a Signal Company RE undertaking the same work, August 1918 - July 1919; providing brief references to life on the Home Front in Britain including Zeppelin raids, a munitions factory explosion near Kings Lynn and his early training which included practice trench warfare, while describing living conditions in France, Salonika and Egypt with particular reference to the Macedonian climate and landscape, his attendance at Church parades, Christmas celebrations, Army postal censorship, his hospitalisation at the 31st General Hospital at Port Said with dysentery (August 1917) and later with 'disorderly action of the heart' (December 1917), his views on the successful Palestine campaign, recreational activities including sight-seeing in Cairo, concert parties and cinema-going, Spanish influenza, Egyptian civil riots (March - April 1919) and his demobilisation. Also held with the collection are 9 ms/ts letters (24pp) written to him by friends and relatives, April 1918 - October 1936; 14 ms letters (21pp) written to Emily by Fautley's brother Fred, ca August 1917 - October 1918; 13 ms letters (29pp) written to Emily by her brother Jack, ca November 1917 - April 1918; and a number of related documents including theatre programmes, photographs and wartime souvenirs.
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Catalogue date 2002-03-14 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Fautley, Christopher C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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