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Description: | 47 ms letters (147pp) and 3 field service postcards written home to his fiancee during service with the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (90th Brigade, 30th Division, from April 1918 the South African Brigade, 9th Division) on the Western Front, November 1916 - September 1918, describing his embarkation, trench conditions and billets, war news, parcels sent from home, a period in the 47th General Hospital with shrapnel wounds (April 1917) before his evacuation back to the United Kingdom until August 1917, trench bombing raids, attendance at church services, his application for a commission, his views on a possible end to the war, and finally his evacuation to the 3rd (Canadian) Casualty Clearing Station with wounds which led to his permanent return to the UK (December 1917); together with an ms letter (1p) from a fellow soldier informing Turner's fiancee of his hospitalisation, December 1917.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2001-11-21 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Turner, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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