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Description: | A collection of 22 ms letters to his family in Birmingham, together with an almost complete ts transcript (15pp), covering his service as a sixteen year old private in the 1/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (143rd Brigade, 48th Division) under training in the United Kingdom in the winter of 1914 - 1915 and on the Western Front, April - August 1915; and as a Corporal Mechanic with X Flight, No 14 Squadron RFC/RAF in Arabia and Egypt, December 1917 - December 1918; also a very interesting ts transcript (6pp) of a post-war radio broadcast describing a journey with T E Lawrence in Arabia in late 1917. With his papers are one ts letter from his brother, Major W Birkinshaw, written in August 1943 when he was serving in the Army Dental Corps in Nigeria, commenting on the attitude of the average African towards the war and one ms letter from G Browning, then living in Essex, to Birkinshaw's father written in July 1915 and condemning the war as 'no more or less than murder committed by those in authority the last seven years'.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1980-01-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 143rd Infantry Brigade 14 Squadron Royal Air Force Royal Warwickshire Regiment British Army 1/8 Battalion 48th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Birkinshaw, Frank Thornton | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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