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Description: | Small collection of ms and ts letters and brief memoirs sent to him following his national newspaper appeal in April 1974 for the reminiscences of surviving members of the BEF who had fought on the Western Front between August 1914 and May 1915; together with a few original documents including an incomplete ms diary (pp2-11 only) kept by an NCO serving in the Essex Yeomanry on the Western Front (December 1914), ts transcripts (15pp) of eleven letters home from various members of the (?) Preston family, among them good descriptions of service as junior officers in the 27th Brigade RFA (5th Division) during the 2nd Battle of Ypres and of service on the Somme in September 1916, and ts transcripts (3pp each) of two graphic letters from the Reverend J F Bloxam relating his experiences as Chaplain to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (117th Brigade, 39th Division) during the Menin Road fighting in 3rd Ypres (September 1917) and then to the 16th Battalion KRRC (100th Brigade, 33rd Division) in their operations on the River Selle during the final Allied advance (October 1918), also a few ms autobiographical fragments concerning Noel's service with the 2nd Battalion KOYLI at the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau (August 1914)
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1993-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Noel, J B L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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