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Description: | Extensive collection of papers relating to his military career, comprising: 1252 ms letters written to his family while serving as an officer with the West India Regiment in Jamaica and Sierra Leone, 1895 - 1898; with the 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders in South Africa, 1900 - 1902; as acting CO of the same battalion (1st Guards Brigade, 1st Division) on the Western Front, 1914 - 1917 (1st Ypres, Aubers Ridge, Somme); as DAQMG, 47th (London) Division, 1915 - 1916; as GOC 56th Infantry Brigade (19th Division), 1917 (Messines); as Commandant and Chief Instructor of the Infantry Training School at Salonika, then as Base Commandant, HQ British Salonika Force, 1917 - 1919; and with the Cameron Highlanders on tours of duty in Germany, Ireland and India, 1919 - 1923 (the Western Front letters are particularly useful for descriptions of trench conditions and trench warfare); ms diary (61pp) covering his service in Sierra Leone during the `Hut Tax Expedition', 1898; photocopy (78pp) of ms diary covering his service in South Africa, 1900 - 1901; ms diary in 9 volumes (1100pp) covering his service on the Western Front and in Salonika, 1914 - 1919; and other miscellaneous papers, including autograph letters from Birdwood, Rawlinson and Austen Chamberlain, recollections of Kitchener and Winston Churchill, official papers and photographs; a series of ms letters (115pp) written during 1900 from South Africa by his brother, Malcolm Craig-Brown, who served with a voluntary service company of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, is also in the collection.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1992-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Craig-Brown, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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