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Description: | Seven ms letters (18 pp) written whilst serving as a Driver in the 238th Company ASC, 37th Reserve Park, Salonika, July – September 1916, including comments on the preparations for embarkation to Salonika, the issue of censorship, the problems of water shortages and the heat, requests for various items to be sent to him and offering reassurance of his well-being; one of the letters is from Driver E Powell of the Royal Field Artillery, Etaples (September 1917) and mentions the state of his nerves and his imminent removal to hospital. Together with 11 photographs and postcards of various unnamed men in uniform, 238th ASC Sports Day Programme (4pp), a Christmas card from the Salonika Army 1918, a ts monologue entitled “Who won the war and why!!” written by soldiers of the Salonika Force in October 1918 (6pp), 4 issues of the Balkan News from October 1918 and January 1919 (8pp) and assorted demobilisation papers.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Powell, Sydney | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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