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Description: | Microfilm copy of 601 ms letters (December 1914 - November 1942), covering mainly the 1914 - 1919 period, to his fiancee (later his wife) while serving in, and from June 1918 as commanding officer of the 1/23rd Battalion London Regiment (142nd Brigade, 47th Division), describing mostly personal matters but also, occasionally, experiences in the Western Front trenches during July 1915 - March 1916, July - September 1916, October 1916 - January 1918 and May - November 1918, mentioning preparations for, and the first days of, the Battle of Loos, the Battle of Messines (June 1917), the Battle of the Ancre (April 1918) and operations in Artois (October 1918), his time at 4th Army Infantry School (September - October 1916) and Aldershot Senior Officers' course (January - April 1918), undergoing a gas attack (June 1917), hospitalisation for (at No 24 General Hospital, Etaples), and recuperation from, a foot injury (March - June 1916) and wounds (April 1918), relations with Portuguese troops (1918) and general comments on life and conditions in the trenches; also describing life in the Army in France until May 1919 while awaiting demobilisation after the Armistice and, in 1942, a mission to, and glimpses of wartime life in, South Africa, under the auspices of the Ministry of War Transport.
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Catalogue date 1984-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tolerton, Robert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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