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Description: | Series of 177 ms letters (602pp), March 1915 - October 1916, written to his fiance during service as a Sergeant Major with the 1/20th (County of London) Battalion The London Regiment TF (141st Brigade, 47th Division) on the Western Front, briefly attached to 141st Trench Mortar Battery (141st Brigade), May -July 1915, containing descriptions of his involvement in the Battles of Loos (September - October 1915) and Vimy Ridge (May 1916), his receipt of gifts from home, conditions in the trenches, his billets and entertainments including concert parties, the novelty of uncensored green envelopes, the devastation caused by shelling and the presence of French women and children near the Front, his anguish over the separation from his fiancee and concern over Zeppelin raids on London, a brief period with the Corps Convalescent Company while suffering from trenchfoot, and his evacuation back to the United Kingdom in September 1916 with a shrapnel wound in his foot. Also held with the collection is the published edition of the letters compiled by his son, entitled LOVE AND WAR (Burleigh Press Ltd, Bristol: 1992), which contains a short history of the 20th Londons.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1999-11-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Trafford, E H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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