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Description: | Papers relating to his court martial for attempting to incite mutiny while serving with the 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (236th Brigade, 25th Division) in North Russia in 1919, including the charge sheet, summary of the evidence and witness accounts, a copy of the operation orders he was charged with disobeying, his statement of defence and the death sentence. Also included are an intermittent ms diary (27pp) kept during this time with some mention of his arrest and imprisonment, his Field Pass from Seletskoe where he was sent for hard labour when his sentence was commuted, 3 photographs, 11 postcards, his Bombing instructor's certificate dated 6 February 1918, his Anti gas instructor's certificate dated 11 July 1917, magazine photographs of the Yorkshire Regiment in Russia and a Christmas card dated 1917.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-10-17 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Shelton, H E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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