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Description: | 27 ms letters (67pp) written to his family, while on Home Service as an Officer with the 1/15th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own Civil Service Rifles) (4th London Brigade, 2nd London Division), stationed in Berkhamsted and then Grimsby, 14 March 1914 - 15 November 1915, recounting the training he received whilst speculating on the possibility of his being promoted to Captain but focusing on his personal affairs, also covering his transfer to the 3/1st Brigade Royal Field Artillery, December 1915 - August 1917, communicating how he worked in a busy office in Ripon, Yorkshire, until his embarkation to France (18 August 1917); together with two ms poems (2pp), regarding his wartime experiences, two pencil sketches depicting politicians and soldiers, a scrapbook containing foreign currency and ration vouchers, a printed book by Eric Linklater, entitled ‘The Highland Division’, published in 1942, a trench map, a number of blank postcards and contemporary newspaper articles as well as 21 photographs of him in uniform with his battalion.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Artillery Royal Field Artillery British Army London Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Holton, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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