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Description: | 24 ms letters (89pp) written home to his wife while serving as a Captain with the 1/20th Battalion London Regiment (141st Brigade, 47th Division) on the Western Front, March - May 1915 and September 1918, describing the French countryside and villages, his billets and living conditions, his views on the French population and language difficulties, trench and aerial warfare, church parades, the sinking of the LUSITANIA and likelihood of America entering the war, a meeting with the Prince of Wales and the progress of the Battle of Festubert (May 1915). Also held with the collection are his commission certificates as 2nd Lieutenant (June 1910) and Major (November 1920); a certificate awarding him the Order of the British Empire, Military Division (January 1944); his honourable discharge certificate from 1910; and a small number of family records including his baptism certificate.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2001-10-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Honeybourne, H C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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