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Description: | 26 ms letters (86pp) sent to his wife while serving as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 1/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (125th Brigade, 42nd Division) at Gallipoli but primarily during his time as the Captain commanding No 11 Kite Balloon Section Royal Flying Corp stationed in France, 26 May 1915 – 7 June 1916, recording his being shot in the arm on 6 May 1915 which resulted in his returning from Gallipoli to the United Kingdom to recuperate, proceeding with an account of the weather conditions and the landscape of the Western Front, his rations and billets, his time recovering from what appears to have been ‘shell shock’ at No 8 General Hospital at Rouen (1 – 7 June 1916) with subtle references to his symptoms as well as how they affected his morale and perceptions of his own masculinity, throughout focusing on the separation from and concern for his family; together with 4 ms letters (18pp) written to him by his wife, who was a VAD nurse at Maindiff Court Hospital near Abergavenny, 27 May - 5 June 1916, conveying her anxiety about her pregnancy and her reaction to his hospitalisation. The collection includes Mrs Berrington’s VAD armband, certificate of identity and registration card, a collection of his service records, revealing how he was promoted to Major on 27 September 1916 as well as miscellaneous letters from friends and acquaintances, newspaper articles, theatre programmes and other souvenirs all dating from the First World War.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Berrington, John Spencer Davies | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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