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Description: | Excellent ms letter (23pp), written on 25 October 1920 from the British Army Post Office at Constantinople, and describing to a friend the experiences of himself and his wife Louisa while living in Constantinople during the First World War, including very interesting references to his dismissal from the Turkish Service and status as a protected subject of America and (from March 1917) the Netherlands, the wartime changes instituted under Turkish law and the suspicion and hostility of the Turks towards foreigners, rationing and the high cost of food and supplies, the prevalence of Typhus in the city, the explosion at the Haidar Pasha railway terminus which destroyed the German forces amassing there in preparation for taking Baghdad, and Armistice celebrations. The letter ends with Vinicombe questioning what the future holds for Turkey.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1999-05-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Vinicombe, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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