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Description: | 17 ms letters (52pp), some incomplete, written to his mother and sisters during service with the Mobile Veterinary Section (155th Brigade, 52nd Division), Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, July 1915 – April 1918, mentioning the success of General Smuts in German East Africa (March 1916), his opinion of the New Zealand and Australian troops arriving from service at Gallipoli, his attachment to the 1/4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (155th Brigade, 52nd Division) (? September 1916) and transfer to a cavalry training school in France where he was reunited with his brother, Fred (March 1917); also included is a letter (3pp) written in 1963 to his nephew Terrence describing how their brother Arthur tried to impress a girl during his training with the Royal Flying Corps (? May 1917) and nearly crashed his aircraft into her house, and a portrait photograph showing his marriage to Dorothy Warneford, sister of Reginald Warneford VC.
Cataloguer BEK | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | English, Henry Herman | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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