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Description: | Edited ts transcript (10pp, plus illustrations) of a letter written from the 3rd Southern General Hospital in Oxford to his work colleagues in New Zealand, dated 20 - 24 October 1916, giving a good description of his service as a sergeant with the 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment (2nd New Zealand Infantry Brigade, New Zealand Division) in Egypt (March - April 1916), in the Armentieres sector on the Western Front (May - mid August 1916) and then in the Somme offensive until he was seriously wounded on 16 September during the attack on Flers, his evacuation to England and his treatment and convalescence in Oxford. The letter includes useful references to conditions in the trenches, the sight of the dead and wounded, the first use of tanks on 15 September and the attitude of the British towards New Zealand soldiers.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1997-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Collins, F W J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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