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Description: | Ts transcription (15pp) of 3 letters written in August and September 1915 and February 1916 describing his service with the 1/6th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (157th Brigade, 52nd Division) at Gallipoli, with good descriptions of his living conditions and a very detailed account of his part in the attack on Achi Baba on 12 July 1915, together with a ts memorandum (3pp) describing an attack by the Battalion's C Company on trench G12 (15-16 August 1915) during which many of the men under his command refused to follow his lead and a contemporary ms sketch showing the layout of the trenches.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2007-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wyllie, M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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