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Description: | 31 ms letters and postcards (80pp) written to his family during training with the 7th Battalion City of London Regiment at Blackdown camp, United Kingdom, before active service in France with the 51st Battalion The Rifle Brigade at the Infantry Base Depot (May 1917 - July 1918), then attached to the 2/10th (County of London) Battalion The London Regiment (175th Brigade, 58th Division) until his death in action in August 1918 aged 19, describing living conditions in the UK and at the Front, the slow delivery of post in France, and an incident involving an unsolicited homosexual advance by another soldier, together with eight official and private letters of condolence (16pp) following his death in action, and post-war correspondence (6pp) concerning the award of a war pension to his parents. Also held with the collection are a few post-war papers (30pp) relating to the service of H C Marsland in the Merchant Navy, comprising his Continuous Certificate of Discharge, Certificate of Service, and three ms/ts character references, together with some miscellaneous family documents.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1998-09-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 51st (Graduated) Battalion 175th Brigade British Army London Regiment (Hackney) London Regiment 58th Division 7th (City of London) Battalion 2/10th (County of London) Battalion Rifle Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Chapman, Bertie Frederick John | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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