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Description: | Photocopied ts transcript (10pp) of a letter to his uncle, dated (?) 18 October 1914, describing how, as a cameraman employed by Olympic Kine, he had crossed to Antwerp on 5 October and, with the permission of the Belgian authorities, had done some filming there before returning to England on 7 October, then crossed to Ostend on 9 October, travelling on by car to Bruges and Ghent before being forced by the German advance to withdraw to Ostend from where they had a 'far from comfortable' trip on 14 October back to the United Kingdom, initially as stowaways, on a cargo ship and including good accounts of the state of the Belgian troops whom they filmed, various alarms when they tried to take pictures of the fighting, their arrangement of the evacuation of a young British girl resident in Bruges and the distressing sight of large numbers of wounded Belgian soldiers and civilian refugees; together with a photocopy of an ms letter (2pp), dated July 1914, written from Sir Thomas Lipton's steam yacht ERIN explaining how he had been commissioned to film the challenge by Lipton's yacht SHAMROCK IV for yachting's America's Cup, various documents, presscuttings and photographs relating to Ferguson's death in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos (25 September 1915) when serving as a private in the London Scottish (1/14th Battalion London Regiment), and a ts biographical note (1p) on him written by his nephew.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Robin Adair Ferguson | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ferguson, Robin Adair | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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