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Description: | Ms letters (142pp), with partial ms transcript (38pp), written to and from his mother, sister and brothers in the United Kingdom and Canada during his service with the 8th Battalion Welsh Regiment (40th Brigade, 13th Division) (January 1917 - December 1918) in India at the Combined Infantry Depot (early 1917 -November 1917), in Mesopotamia (November 1917 - December 1918) and in Egypt (late December 1918), containing constant reassurances to his mother about his health and safety, reflections on the progress of the war (although limited information about his own activities), a commentary on his family's new life in Canada and the fate of fellow soldiers, together with descriptions of his feelings on being away from his family, Indians and their caste system, the Indian flora and fauna, problems with weather and flies and mosquitoes, the receipt and contents of parcels, periods of illness, problems sending pay home, and his eagerness regarding joining his mother in Canada following the Armistice. Schofield died of malaria on 30 January 1919 and this collection includes 6 photographs of him and fellow soldiers in uniform, two printed poems entitled 'A Letter to Dear Old England' and 'His First Guard', and a cloth bag in which his property was sent back to his mother.
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Catalogue date 2005-03-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Schofield, F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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