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Description: | Ms essay (2pp, undated), with ts transcription (1p), entitled ‘Aftermath’ and concerning his thoughts at the end of the First World War on the sacrifices made throughout the conflict, relating in particular his feelings on the death of a fellow soldier due to Spanish influenza on the eve of demobilisation. Together with a privately printed volume of poetry (36pp, undated) entitled ‘War Verse and More Verse’; an ms letter (3pp, 7 November 1918) written home to his mother describing their rapid advance across the Western Front and the expected speedy end to the war; an ms war poem entitled ‘Fragments’ (1p, undated) written during his wartime service as an officer in the Bedfordshire Regiment, with ts transcription (1p); a ts poem ‘To the 63rd (RN) Division’ (1p, undated), with ms note (1p, undated) from his CO suggesting he send it for publication in the Divisional magazine ‘The Mudhook’; two postcards showing views of Le Treport with ms comments on reverse (undated); a Royal Naval Division Christmas card for 1918; a printed 'Moonlight Chart' (1p) showing phases of the moon for October - December 1918; two embroidered souvenir postcards; two 1917 Christmas cards sent home by his brother Tom; a circular ts letter of appreciation (1p, 28 March 1945) addressed to leaders of Street Fire Guard Parties; a ts memo (1p, 4 May 1945) from the London Borough of Bromley Wardens' Service thanking Holmes for his fire guard work; and a collection of 20 loose photographs, mainly scenes of Egypt and Palestine, including one showing an undated meeting between Clemenceau and Allenby at Luxor.
Cataloguer APR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Holmes, Ward | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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