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Description: | 4 ms letters and a field service postcard to his family in Lancashire from a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery, the first letter giving his impressions of India just after he had joined an RFA battery in Kirkee (December 1912) and the remainder written during his service with the 6th Anglo Indian Division Ammunition Column, Indian Expeditionary Force D in Mesopotamia (November 1914 - ? 1915), with references to the action at Ruta creek in January 1915, the great heat, his confidence in the early defeat of the Turks and his contempt for the Germans; together with a presscutting and an ms note (1p) concerning his death and burial when a prisoner of war in Turkish hands on 18 August 1916, and a printed letter (1p) from the Royal Horse and Field Artillery Records Office confirming the details of his death and enclosing the standard message of sympathy from the King and Queen.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1999-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bulcock, B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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