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Description: | 11 ms letters (23pp in total) written home to his aunt while serving as a Lieutenant Colonel with the 8th Canadian Infantry Battalion CEF in the United Kingdom, February 1915, and then as OC 8th Battalion on the Western Front, July 1915 - March 1917, for a period in June 1916 as a Staff Officer with the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade, referring to his fear of losing his nerve, the likelihood of an attack against Messines Ridge, visits to the trenches by Canadian war correspondents, his billets in a French village and the attitude of the French civilians toward the Germans. Included with the letters is a used despatch envelope (AF C398).
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2001-10-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Prower, J M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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