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Description: | Album (104pp) containing ms notes, letters, presscuttings and other documents relating to his command of the 44th (Highland) Infantry Brigade (15th Division), August 1914 - April 1916, including his personal narrative of the Battle of Loos (September - October 1915) which is accompanied by notes and orders for his Brigade's attack, and describing his return from the retired list to command the 44th Brigade, an inspection of the 15th Division in September 1914 accompanied by HM King George V, Lord Kitchener and Sir Archibald Hunter, suspected enemy signalling activity within the United Kingdom and behind the British lines in France, training and equipping the New Army, to France in July 1915, the chateau near Loos in which he was billeted, visits to the trenches, discipline, on leave in the UK including problems with the licensing laws and conversations with Field Marshal (then General) Sir William Robertson, plus correspondence relating to his return to the retired list in April 1916. Included in the album are ts transcriptions of a letter written by an officer onboard HMS INVINCIBLE describing the Battle of the Falkland Islands (December 1914) and another written by an officer onboard HMS TIGER during the Battle of the Dogger Bank (January 1915); an ms letter written by an officer serving with the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers (87th Brigade, 29th Division) describing their landings on Y Beach, Gallipoli (25 April 1915), and a ts extract from a letter written by Lieutenant Commander Adrian Keyes RN, Beachmaster in charge of the naval arrangements for the landings on Y Beach.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1999-02-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilkinson, M G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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