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Description: | Microfilm copy of a series of ts letters (260pp) written during his service as Intelligence Officer with the 9th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (26th Division) in Salonika (November 1915 - June 1918) and then in France (July - December 1918), describing his duties which included producing detailed trench maps, his Battalion's move into the front line, observation duties including patrols in No Man's Land, a series of trench raids, his promotion to Captain after which he took leave in the United Kingdom before rejoining his Battalion in France where he remained until the Armistice, after which he was appointed Battalion Education Officer; the letters provide a comparison of the efficiency of the British Army in Greece and France, referring to unwritten trench conventions and propagandist correspondence with Bulgarian troops, while praising the work of the YMCA, criticising fellow officers including Major General H K Bethell, and commenting on relations between officers and men, and the distribution of medals and pay.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sibly, T M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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