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Description: | Photocopy of a ms letter (4pp) written by an unknown medical orderly to his mother whilst stationed in France, dated 1 April 1918, containing excellent details of the evacuation of casualties during the German Offensive of 1918, recounting step by step his movements throughout the retreat as well as describing the overwhelming number of wounded which had to be carried to safety, the lack of rations and sleep he experienced and how the mud and rain exasperated the dire and dangerous situation he found himself in.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-10-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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