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Description: | 30 files of ms letters written to her by 38 correspondents, March 1912 - June 1946, serving mostly on the Western Front and also in Egypt, representing British and Imperial land, air and naval forces and commenting upon a wide variety of subjects, and in particular including letters from: members of her scout troop serving with the 2/8th Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment (183rd Brigade, 61st Division) in France (1915) and with the 13th Battery, RHA, training in England as a wireless and telegraph operator (1915) showing the usefulness of their scout training in the army; a soldier (1914 - 1918) serving with the machine gun section of the 1/1st Worcestershire Yeomanry (1st Mounted Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division) in the Dardanelles; her brother (1915 - 1918) who was serving with the Somerset Light Infantry in France and who died of illness in a prisoner of war camp in Germany (December 1918); a sergeant (1915 - 1920) of the 16th Signal Corps, Royal Engineers, serving in Egypt; a stoker on board the battleship HMS HERCULES who describes their entrance into the German port of Wilhelmshaven (1918); a signaller (1912 - 1923) with the 53rd Battalion (3rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force) serving on the Western Front who includes comments about the affect of the war on Canadian industry; a private in a military hospital at Bromborough, Cheshire (June 1917) who gives details of a'Big Push' (he was possibly at Messines); and an officer (1940 - 1946) of the Worcestershire Regiment posted at training camps in Northamptonshire and Norfolk; together with letters to her mother from the YMCA International Hospitality League (1919 - 1920) acknowledging her offers to entertain overseas troops in Britain on leave.
Cataloguer PJG
Catalogue date 1993-12-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Barnard, W M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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