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Description: | Album containing 37 ms letters written to his family while he was serving with the 3rd Battalion and later 9th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment in the United Kingdom, October - December 1914 and May - September 1915, on attachment to the Army Cyclist Corps at Hounslow and later near Tidworth, December 1914 - May 1915, and on attachment to the Machine Gun Corps with the 132nd Machine Gun Company in the UK, July - October 1916, and during his journey via Dakar and Durban to Mesopotamia where he was killed in action near Kut in January 1917, with useful details of the life of a young subaltern and conditions in Mesopotamia, as well as interesting references to self-mutilation to avoid an overseas draft (see 1 November 1914) and a Zeppelin raid on East Anglia in August 1915; also his school reports, service records and papers relating to his service in the OTC while at Berkhamsted School and to his death, burial and the settlement of his estate, as well as a humorous ms essay (7pp) by him on coastal defence, written in 1915, over 100 letters of condolence and messages of sympathy received by his family after his death, various presscuttings, official and family photographs showing him with his siblings, at school, at an OTC camp, with the Army Cyclist Corps and with the 132nd Machine Gun Company in Mesopotamia, and a ts transcript (44pp) of the 12 letters that he wrote home after leaving England and of letters and telegrams concerning his death.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2005-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Macgregor, J H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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