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Description: | Folder of official papers containing his Army Chaplain's service records (1916 - 1919), documents pertaining to the disposal of the United Army Board Institute Hut, Sutton Veny, Wiltshire which he ran during the First World War, a few miscellaneous printed items and 2 folders of correspondence received by him mainly from servicemen (some of them Australian) who had known him there detailing subsequent experiences on active service and including useful descriptions of conditions at Gallipoli (July - September 1915) and on the Western Front, the duties of an RAMC stretcher bearer, 2/5th Field Ambulance (14 October 1916), the work of No 55 Casualty Clearing Station (30 April and 3 November 1918) and the responsibilities of an Army chaplain (2 October 1917) as well as apparent references to conscientious objectors (31 March and 24 May 1918) and to tragic cases of infidelity and bigamy (1919); also a small collection of Second World War papers including vivid letters from correspondents in Kilburn and Golders Green, North London, describing the severe effects of the Blitz, 1940 - 1941, and a letter apparently written by an Army nurse based on a hospital train at Bournemouth (July 1940).
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1997-09-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hayward, E E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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