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Description: | 135 ms letters and postcards (276pp) written to his family in Felsted, Essex, during his service as a private and then lance corporal with the 19th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (98th Brigade, 33rd Division) while training in the United Kingdom (September 1914 - November 1915) and then on active service on the Western Front (November 1915 - February 1916) describing life in the army, billets in France, food and rations, his first experience of the trenches, his first sight of the Germans, receipt of letters and gifts from home, Christmas celebrations, his officer training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (February - August 1916), and then his service on the Western Front as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 11th Battalion Essex Regiment (18th Brigade, 6th Division) (September - October 1916), in particular losing his eye after being wounded in action during the Battle of the Somme on 15 October 1916, with two telegrams and postcard from a fellow officer informing his family of his condition; together with four photographs of Doherty in uniform taken during the two world wars, notes (13pp) giving details of his military career and of family members referred to in his letters, and a CD-Rom containing images of the photographs and notes, 2001 - 2003.
Cataloguer KM
Catalogue date 2003-12-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Doherty, T O'C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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