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Description: | Ts report (7pp) on the administration of labour in XVII Corps during the period February 1917 to February 1918, providing details of the various Labour Companies which included Indians, Chinese and prisoners of war, the kind of work carried out, casualties suffered, the hours of labour and their general effectiveness. Together with other documents which include ts (3pp) and ms (4pp) letters of reference for Major A S Campbell from Colonel J Aubrey Smith, Labour Commandant Third Army, and General Byng, GOC Third Army (both February 1919); Campbell's identity pass (1918); his commission and Mention in Despatches certificates; a XIII Labour Group Christmas card for 1917; a printed booklet (36pp) entitled "Notes for Officers of Labour Companies", 2 April 1917; and a copy of Bruce Bairnsfather's 'Fragments from France' (50pp), 1917.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2000-05-31 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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