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Description: | Photocopies of four ms letters (9pp in all) to his family in Yorkshire, ca July - December 1915, written from No 28 Infantry Base Depot in Rouen and then while serving as a private and lance corporal in the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (18th Brigade, 6th Division till late November, then 64th Brigade, 21st Division) on the Western Front, with a few useful comments about the restrictive conditions at the depot, the harsh life in the trenches in winter and the large numbers of men in Britain who had chosen not to enlist in the army; together with a photocopy of a 2pp ms letter to his sister and her husband from some friends in York giving a vivid account of the Zeppelin raid on the city on the night of 2 May 1916 and the unnerving effect which the casualties and damage had had on the local people.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1998-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Appleton, H H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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