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Description: | Ts transcript (66pp) of his letters to his family and a few other related documents covering his service as a platoon/company commander and machine gun officer in the 1/21st Battalion London Regiment (142nd Infantry Brigade - 140th Infantry Brigade from February 1918 - 47th Division) on the Western Front from March 1915 until he was mortally wounded during the German offensive on the Somme in March 1918, including a period of secondment as ADC to Major General (later Lieutenant General) Sir George Gorringe, GOC 47th Division from January 1917 - February 1918. The most interesting letters describe a local action at Vimy Ridge in May 1916, his reservations about the qualities of Kitchener's Army, his feelings about General Gorringe and his efforts to secure a junior staff appointment in furtherance of his ambition to become a regular officer, while there is an extremely touching extract from his sister's diary giving her reactions to the news of his death.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1990-02-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Taylor, Norman Austin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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