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Description: | Ts transcription of extracts from letters written to his wife while serving as a staff officer in the Intelligence Section (Ia) at GHQ, September 1914 - December 1915, commenting on the heavy casualties and loss of his friends; German preparedness, efficiency and enormous resources compared to the British; his duties, notably identifying the German Order of Battle and lecturing on Intelligence, and routine; the work of the RFC; the decline in German resources and moral; stringent rationing in Germany; German shelling and atrocities, notably the brutal and savage treatment of the Belgians and the employment of gas (April 1915); the magnificence of the Tommies; the Press; needing every man under arms; the Christmas Truce (December 1914); the prospects of victory; leave; relations with the French; the shortage of officers and shells; Zeppelin air raids; his determination to defeat Germany; the tremendous sacrifices of the Regular Army; and mentioning the Prince of Wales (King Edward VIII), Field Marshal Lords Kitchener and Roberts, Generals Sir Hugh Elles, Sir George Macdonogh and Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, Herbert Asquith, Arthur Henderson and David Lloyd George. Also included are an ms letter (5pp) to his wife, May 1910, concerning the death of a colleague; a French cartoon (1p) about William II of Germany (printed in Paris, no date); a ts letter (1p) dated January 1914 from the Italian Institute of Military Geography; printed extracts (3pp) prepared from personal documents found on German troops in August and September 1914; an undated published German cartoon (1p) about 'perfidious Albion'; two printed trench panoramas (GSGS 3133a & b) as seen from Kemmel Tower and Le Rossignol, the former originally sketched by Captain (later General Sir James) Marshall-Cornwall (1915); a ms letter (3pp) dated June 1916 from a Colonel serving in the French Army's GQG acknowledging a report on the 'German Forces in the Field'; a ts letter (2pp) dated July 1916 from Bernard Mallet about an intelligence report on Austrian forces; an undated humorous ts account (2pp) of 'one day of crowded joyous life in the Trenches'; two ms letters (2pp each) dated February and March 1918 from Major General Sir George Macdonogh, the Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office, concerning the appointment of Sir Henry Wilson as CIGS and the progress of the German spring offensive; and a ts memoir (5pp, plus a photograph of him in uniform) of Cox's career by General Macdonogh reprinted from The Royal Engineers Journal, February 1919.
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Catalogue date 2000-03-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cox, Edgar William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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