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Description: | Ms transcription (5pp) of extracts from his letters, 14 August - 4 September 1914, written from France where he served with the 5th Dragoon Guards, 1st Cavalry Brigade until his death on 8 September 1914. The letters, which start with his embarkation for France, are light-hearted and frank, and he shows a fair appreciation of the Germans whom he views as "our natural allies" but acknowledges the mayhem spread by them, particularly by the Uhlans, "dirty swabs - just marauders"; he also saw the Germans as "methodical" fighters; the French by contrast, he sees as merely "rotten". Captain Norwood was awarded the Victoria Cross for an act of bravery at Ladysmith in October 1899.
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Catalogue date 1978-06-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Norwood, J (Captain) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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