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Description: | Ts accounts of Christmas celebrations during his service as an NCO with the 2/13th Battalion London Regiment (The Kensingtons) (179th Brigade, 60th Division) in Egypt and Palestine, the first (2pp, dated 1917) recounting the miserable weather conditions in which he spent Christmas Day in the line, the effects of the weather on the roads and subsequent transport problems; the second (3pp, 1918) recalling a much happier celebration involving an impressive dinner in the Ramleh casino at San Stephano and their attempts at creating festive decorations. Also held with the collection are his service records (5pp, 1914 – 1919); cyclostyled battalion orders (1p, 27 March 1916) for the 2/15th Battalion London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles) while stationed at Longbridge Deverill; a signed Christmas card from footballer 2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Young DSO (1917) and one from the First Army School of SOS (1918) depicting a cartoon of Germans releasing poison gas; a printed booklet of postcards depicting the ruins of Ypres; a portrait photograph showing him in uniform; a group photo of the 12th Battalion Middlesex Regiment in camp at Worthing (1907); seven captioned photographs depicting what is probably the 2/15th Battalion London Regiment in camp on Salisbury Plain (1909); two copies of a photograph showing the 2/15th Londons on the Isle of Sheppey (1910); two photos of Major Strange and the company of the 2/15th Londons’ Sergeants Mess at Saffron Walden (undated); six copies of a photograph showing Carr in front of the Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt (1917, with original envelope); and seven postcard photos of fellow First World War soldiers.
Cataloguer APR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Carr, Walter Rayner | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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