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Description: | Microfilm copy of 18 letters to his parish magazine in south east London 1915 - 1918, a ts memoir (103pp), probably written in the 1930's, and various other letters and appreciations relating to his service on the Western Front as a temporary Church of England Chaplain to the Forces to the 27th/28th Infantry Base Depot in Rouen (May - August 1915), with the 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (3rd Division) - his principal attachment - between September 1915 and July 1916 and again from September 1917 to November 1918, and with the XIII Corps Heavy Artillery (December 1916 - June 1917). The papers include descriptions of the fighting at St Eloi in March 1916, when he won the VC for rescuing wounded men, the Battle of Bazentin Ridge on the Somme in July 1916, the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in Spring 1917, the German offensive on the Somme in March 1918 and the final Allied advance, August - November 1918, as well as references to his spiritual work with the troops and their response to it.
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Catalogue date 1983-08-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Chaplain Department British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Mellish, E N | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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