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Description: | 96 ms letters, with ts transcription (134pp including background notes), written home to his mother while serving as a junior officer with the Army Service Corps based in the United Kingdom, July - August 1915, describing army life in the barracks at Aldershot and Pirbright; then attached to No 3 Base Supply Depot at Boulogne, France, September - October 1915, referring to conditions there, relations with the French and food and soldiers' canteens; to Egypt, November 1915, mentioning his voyage out, life in Sidi Bish camp near Alexandria, and his embarkation and the sea-sickness prevalent among the troops; and finally to Salonika, November 1915 - January 1919, where he was attached to the Main Supply Depot at Dudular and, from May 1916, the Lembet Supply Depot, describing the cold winter conditions greeting his arrival, his duties at the depots and relations with the local Greeks, mail from home, food, air raids by Taubes and Zeppelins, the arrest of German Consuls in Salonika, his pastime of gardening, the shooting down of a Zeppelin (May 1916), recreational activities including visits to Salonika town, the return of Venezelos to Salonika (October 1916), Christmas celebrations at the White Tower, a period of leave and his return to Salonika in an Italian ship, the devastation caused by the Salonika fire in his absence, concert parties and sports, and exploring the abandoned Bulgar positions following the Second Battle of Doiran (18-19 September 1918). The collection includes an older ts version of the transcription, identical in content to the more modern copy.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2003-05-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | De Normann, Eric | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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