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Description: | 48 ms letters (73pp) written home to his parents during service as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 111th Machine Gun Company (111th Brigade, 37th Division) on the Western Front, February – November 1916, containing few references to his duties but describing his embarkation and arrival in France, difficulties in procuring his equipment, requesting supplies from home, living conditions in his billets, the presence of rats in the trenches, issues regarding his pay, weather conditions, observation of aerial warfare, and attendance at the Machine Gun Training School at Camier (September). Together with 23 field service postcards; photocopies (25pp) of his military service records from the National Archives; an ms list of his movements throughout the war (4pp); an ms note (2pp, 11 November 1916) written by a friend and found in a dugout following his death in action in which he predicts his forthcoming fate; his Officer’s Record of Services (AB439); account books for Cox & Co (23pp, July 1915 – September 1919) and the National Provincial Bank of England Ltd (15pp, November 1917 – December 1928); ms training notes on the Vickers machine gun (48pp, August 1915); a small photograph album containing 19 images apparently showing machine gun training; his railway ticket used during leave (1p, October 1916); his officers’ mess account (1p, June 1918); an Oxford University OTC training certificate (1p, July 1915); and four ms notebooks kept during his military service containing rough notes on training, procedure and nominal rolls. The collection also includes printed Mess Regulations (5pp) for the 7th Battalion Dorset Regiment; a ‘safe conduct’ certificate for a French civilian; a copy of ‘The Wulfrunian’, the magazine of Wolverhampton School, listing him as a past pupil who has joined up (55pp, December 1916); three Army Inspection Department Memo of Examination forms (AID77) for the Vickers 303 rifle, including envelopes; four printed trench maps of the Western Front; and ‘Semaphore Simplified’ (29 printed cards plus instructions).
Cataloguer APR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | d'Arcy, John Leslie Fellows | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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