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Description: | Original ts/ms drafts (93pp) of articles for the Regimental Journal concerning his service with the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (10th Brigade, 4th Division) on the Western Front, August 1914 - March 1916, together with an ms transcription (9pp) of extracts from his letters home, December 1914 - May 1915, a ts transcription (35pp) of the diary of Captain A J Trousdell, covering his service with the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers in France and as a staff officer with 10th and 12th Brigades (4th Division), 1916 - 1917, a photocopy (26pp) of the official war diary of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers in Palestine, May 1938 - March 1939, important ts correspondence (18pp) concerning the formation of the Local Defence Volunteers (later Home Guard) in May 1940, and a ts article (13pp) describing the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers' exploits playing polo in Malta, 1938 - 1939.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1977-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Carden Roe, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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