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Description: | 7 ms letters to his sister written while he was serving as a junior officer with the 3rd Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry during training in England (June 1900) and while attached to the 4th Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment during the Boer War, based in Mafeking (July – September 1901) and Christiana (October 1901 – February 1902) with brief references to military operations, casualties and Lieutenant General Lord Methuen (also 3 photographs), together with 186 ms letters and cards and 2 telegrams to his family and future wife written while he was serving: with the 20th Hussars at a remount depot in Colchester, training yeomanry (August – November 1914 and circa January – September 1915) and in France, briefly, November – December 1914 until evacuated sick; on attachment to the RNAS as an artillery observer (September – October 1915) with good details of his training in balloons while based at Roehampton then in France near Bailleul, and while adjutant to the 3rd Kite Balloon Section, 3rd Wing RFC in England and near Albert in France (October 1915 – January 1916) with references to his living conditions; at cavalry depots in Colchester and Uckfield, Sussex, (March - May 1916) and Tidworth, Hampshire (January 1918); on the Western Front as a horsemaster attached to the Australian Artillery Corps, 6th Army initially in the Ypres sector then in the Somme sector (February – September 1918) with details of conditions, including raising hens and rabbits, references to Australian forces and an uncensored record of his movements; attached to the 1/2nd Lancashire Heavy Battery RGA (21st Brigade RGA) also as a horsemaster (September – November 1918) with details of the unit’s rapid advance including the Battle of the St Quentin Canal as well as living conditions and casualties amongst his acquaintances and to the horses; post Armistice (after hospitalisation with influenza in France and England) at remount depots in Tidworth, Ormskirk, Lancashire and Romsey, Hampshire (January – October 1919) with brief details of his duties and references to his uncertain post war employment prospects in the Army, which contributed to his future father-in-law’s well documented opposition to his marriage; also 17 ms letters from various correspondents, mainly written 1918 – 1921 and principally concerned with his engagement.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cowlard, John Fleetwood | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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