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Description: | 9 ts letters, with one ms original, written April - October 1915 while a Lieutenant in the 1/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) (147th Brigade, 49th Division) on the Western Front with useful descriptions of his first impressions of the trenches, the butchery of war, and mentioning the attributes of a good officer and the necessity of meeting brutality with brutality; also a ts memoir (14pp), principally covering his experiences in the 1/4th Battalion, September 1914 - August 1916, including training in the United Kingdom and service on the Western Front at Fleurbaix and in the Ypres sector (1915), at Mailly-Mallet and at Thiepval on the Somme (1916) with good references to personalities in his Battalion, which initially rejected 'outsiders', and to his temporary attachment to an engineering Company, the reactions of officers and men to front line conditions, the execution of two soldiers from the Royal Irish Rifles for desertion (March 1916) and his experiences during the Battle of the Somme (July - August 1916); together with 2 ms letters from him written while a schoolboy, 1902 - 1905.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2001-03-16 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pratt, T D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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