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Description: | Ts transcription of 14 letters written to his parents and sister while serving as a Company Commander in the 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers (86th Brigade, 29th Division) at Gallipoli, May - August 1915, providing a vivid picture of the fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula including an eye-witness account of the death of Brigadier General H E Napier, their heavy losses and the fierce fighting, and the strain under which officers were living as well as commenting on the low quality of new officers and men, their landing at Suvla Bay (August 1915) and the loss of over half the battalion at Chocolate Hill.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Nightingale, G W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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