Description: | Microfilm of 3 volumes of ts transcriptions of his informative letters to his wife while serving as a territorial officer with the RAMC in France, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine, June 1916 - December 1918, including active service with the 2nd/5th London Field Ambulance (60th Division) in France (June 1916 - November 1916), on the journey to Greece (November 1916 - December 1916), at Salonika (December 1916 - ), and commenting on trench life, the conditions, hunting vermin, trench fever, Army red tape, shell shock, the constant casualties, his baptism of fire, German shelling, and mentioning Captain Coote VC. Also included is a volume of his correspondence with his father and some colleagues, March 1915 - July 1918, concerning his financial loss since mobilisation of the TF and his problems in paying his bills, his responsibility to his wife and children rather than volunteering for active service, and payment from the Dentists' War Relief Fund Committee; putting his affairs in order in case of his death; and his promotion to the rank of Major.
Cataloguer SNR
Catalogue date 2003-07-25 |