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Description: | Ms letter (2pp) written home to his mother while serving with the Royal Marine Brigade, RE Detachment (63rd Royal Naval Division) at Gallipoli, 15 June 1915, describing the receipt of food parcels and supplies from home, the wildlife present on the Peninsula and his work supervising the construction of trenches; together with an ms letter (28pp) written by his sister Margaret to a nephew, 23 September 1964, in which she refers to her brother's experiences during the First World War, including his enlistment into the RND, hospitalisation at Deal suffering from meningitis, evacuation home after service at Gallipoli and his subsequent emotional and physical breakdown with shell shock. Also held with the collection are his Parchment Certificate (2pp), birth certificate (1p), commissions as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery (1p, October 1916) and as a 2nd Lieutenant (Territorial Army) in the 49th (West Riding) Divisional Engineers RE (1p, August 1922), and three photographs of him in Royal Marine and RGA uniform.
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Catalogue date 2001-11-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brown, J W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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