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Description: | 12 ms letters (39pp) written to his mother and father, concerning his training at Dunstable, Bedfordshire and then his service as a Dispatch Rider with the Royal Engineers stationed in South East Africa, 6 June 1917 - 2 January 1918, commenting on his daily activities, the strict censorship restrictions, his rations, the unbearable heat, the dysentery epidemic as well as the communication and infrastructural problems he faced. Together with a photograph (1p, December 1917) showing Smith with fellow motorcycle riders.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Engineers British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, E E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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