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Description: | Ts transcripts (83pp) of a series of very graphic letters to his parents from a Special Reserve subaltern in the Hampshire Regiment describing his crossing to France (December 1914) and his service as the machine gun officer in the 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment (11th Brigade, 4th Division) entirely in the Ploegsteert sector up to April 1915 and then in the second battle of Ypres until he was seriously wounded in May 1915, with interesting references to life in the trenches, his feelings on coming under fire and attitude towards active service, his participation in the Christmas truce, his censoring of the men's letters, the qualities of his fellow officers and of Canadian and Territorial Force troops whom he helped to train; together with an ms letter (3pp) written home just after he was commissioned in August 1914, an ms letter (4pp) written by his father Sir Charles Holroyd on Christmas Day 1914 from the National Gallery in London of which he was the Director, an ms letter (4pp, with enclosures) dated January 1915 from a subaltern in the 7th Battalion East Surrey Regiment under training in Kent, two ms notes (8pp and 4pp) written by Holroyd in (?) 1916 giving details of his early life, education and Army service, and three photographs of him in uniform taken during the two world wars.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1997-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Holroyd, M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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