Description: | Interesting ms and ts correspondence (63pp), October 1914 - May 1925, relating to his death as an officer in the Black Watch, killed in action in Ploegsteert Wood on 7 November 1914 while attached to the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (10th Brigade, 4th Division), which includes his ms letter (3pp) to his brother before going to the front, October 1914; correspondence, November 1914, explaining the circumstances of his being wounded and being posted missing, notably a ts letter (3pp transcription) from Major General (later General Sir Aylmer) Haldane (GOC 10th Brigade), two letters from Colonel (later Brigadier General) R S Vandeleur (ms, 2pp, with ts transcription, 2pp, and ts transcription, 1p), ms letters (4pp) from Captain Douglas Roberts (an executor of his will), and ms and ts copies of letters (3pp) from two soldiers in his company; ts transcriptions of letters (4pp), December 1914, from officers and men of his Company about the attack in which he was badly wounded; ms and ts letters, January 1915, informing the family that his body was discovered in mid-December, buried, and locating his grave, from Brigadier-General (later General Sir Aylmer) Hunter-Weston (6pp), Colonel Vandeleur (8pp), and the family firm, Parker Sandbach in Liverpool (telegram, 1p); a ms letter, March 1915, from Colonel Vandeleur (2pp) after visiting his grave; ms correspondence, November 1915, relating to the rumour that he is still alive and a POW in Germany (14pp), including a ms letter (2pp) from Count Herman Wrangel, Swedish Legation in London enclosing a telegram (1p) from the Swedish Foreign Minister in Stockholm. Also included are ts obituaries (5pp) from various newspapers and the Eton Chronicle, January 1915; an incomplete, sworn ts statement (1p, undated) by his brother to overturn his will to become his Executor and his daughter's guardian; and ts notification (1p) from the Imperial War Graves Commission, May 1925, giving the location of his permanent headstone in Ploegsteert Wood.
Cataloguer SNR
Catalogue date 1999-06-29 |