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Description: | 250 ms letters written to his family while serving on the Western Front as a 2nd Lieutenant (and eventually as acting Major) with 5 Battery (45th Brigade RFA, 8th Division), November 1914 - August 1917, and 1 Battery (45th Brigade RFA, 8th Division), August - October 1917, covering in detail his experiences as an artillery officer with references to the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Loos, the Somme and Third Ypres and a fascinating account of the Christmas Truce in 1914; also transcripts of some of his letters, 3 volumes of his printed memoirs, notebooks and miscellaneous papers relating to his service during the First World War, correspondence from officers and men in his unit and correspondence collated by his father concerning the enlistment of a younger son (who was later killed) and the internment of enemy aliens (with letters from Andrew Bonar Law MP) among other matters.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wedderburn-Maxwell, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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