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Description: | Ts transcribed extracts (230pp) from letters written to his wife and son while serving as the Church of England Army Chaplain at the 43rd Casualty Clearing Station in France (March 1916 - December 1918), originally stationed near Frevent, west of Arras, but moving in accordance with military action, their final destination being Beaulencourt near Bapaume, describing the role of the clearing station and his daily routine, the pressure they were under during heavy fighting including the opening days of the Somme and Arras offensives, his additional roles as a censor and as an interpreter dealing with the local French population and with German prisoners and wounded, services held near German prisoner of war cages, the spiritual and physical needs of the patients and referring to the thoughts and attributes of the men and officers including their opinions of the Germans; together with miscellaneous papers including a photograph of himself and of the staff of the 43rd CCS (August 1918) and a printed circular from the Deputy Chaplain General about the quality of preaching (November 1916).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bere, M A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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