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Description: | 3 ms letters and transcripts of 10 other letters, all written during his service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) (147th Brigade, 49th Division) on the Western Front, 24 September 1915 - 27 June 1916, with useful references to conditions in the trenches in the Ypres sector and morale on the Somme prior to the beginning of the offensive in July 1916, together with a memoir (160pp, ca 1919) about his family's experiences during the First World War, illustrated with original documents, photographs and transcripts of his letters covering principally his own war service after enlistment in the Inns of Court OTC in December 1914 mainly in the 1/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment in the United Kingdom, March - April 1915, and on the Western Front, August 1915 - autumn 1916 when he was invalided home, then after convalescence working in the 9th District Record Office in Brentwood until his discharge in June 1917, with vivid descriptions of conditions in the front line in the Ypres sector (1915) and during the Battle of the Somme (1916) and references to the execution of two men for desertion (March 1916), as well as a graphic account (38pp), illustrated with sketch maps, of the taking of Stuff Redoubt during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge (September 1916) as recollected by his brother, Captain G C Pratt, of the 9th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (32nd Brigade, 11th Division).
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2001-03-16 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pratt, L W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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