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Description: | 13 ms letters (34pp) written between him and his parents during his service as a Lieutenant with the Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, 21 February – 19 July 1915, providing useful descriptions of his participation in the Allied landings at Gallipoli (29 April 1915) and his experiences in the trenches of the Peninsula, with references to the daily routine and rations, his being taken to a Naval Hospital on Malta (10 July 1915) after displaying the symptoms of typhoid as well as commenting on his brother’s death in action (18 May 1915); then with the Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division on the Western Front, 16 March – 11 June 1918, recounting his own wounding and evacuation back to the United Kingdom, the medical treatment he received from the American staff at No 1 General Hospital near Portsmouth and the affects of poison gas (one of his letters is written blindfolded). Also held wit the collection are a ms telegram and ts letter from the Admiralty reporting his further wounding on 26 October 1917, annotated trench maps from both Gallipoli and France, a substantial collection of ts and ms documents and reports relating to the Royal Naval Division Association, a number of contemporary newspaper cuttings kept as souvenirs including a copy of the ‘London Gazette’ (April 1918) announcing his award of the Military Cross, his birth, death and marriage certificates, a music book (printed in 1914) containing instructions for the training of trumpeters and buglers as well as three photographs and a negative showing him in RND uniform.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Barclay, Warren | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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