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Description: | Series of ms letters (217pp), 23 sent to her by a J M Jenkins, during the First World War, concerning, to begin with, his life in Llanishan near Cardiff; including his daily routine and leisure activities, describing his quilt and reasons for not immediately enlisting in September 1914 and his certainty the war will end quickly, until he is sent to Poona, India in April 1917, where he remained for the rest of the war, serving with the 8th Welsh Pioneers as a clerk in the Brigade Office, expressing his impressions of the unusual landscape, climate and people he came across, whilst also hinting at his disillusionment with the state of the Empire as well as his shock that many Indians were Christians who wore western clothes; together with another 12 letters which are not so light-hearted but more romantic in tone, written by a Belgian soldier R Waulters, from Campagne and then Le Havre, between March and October 1917, discussing particularly in depth the air raids happening in London at this time, however the majority are addressed from Brussels throughout the interwar period, revealing the impact of the war on not just his health but also the political situation by briefly discussing the General Elections of 1931 and the 'threat' from the socialist party in England and on the continent.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-10-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clarke, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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