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Description: | 12 ms letters (22pp) written to his sister-in-law, Daisy Hirst, a Red Cross nurse who was caring for his four children following the death of his wife, describing his service as Brigadier General at Gallipoli (November 1916), and later in France, where he mentions a persistent cough to due gas poisoning, the intense German shelling, which he notes is something he is accustomed to and no longer concerned by (October 1917), his pride in Daisy's Royal Red Cross award (October 1917), his anxiety over the presentation of a gallantry award (January 1918) and later preparations for his marriage to Daisy. Also included are 9 ms letters (41pp) to Daisy from her brother, Jules, an Observer stationed on the Western Front, describing details of his daily life, his pride over his sister's award and his concerns over the German Spring Offensive (March 1918); an ms letter (2pp) from Daisy to Jules, describing a man in her hospital with a slight case of shell-shock who continually tried to marry the nurses in the ward (undated); 5 ms letters (8pp) from several of Daisy's former patients, thanking her for her care in hospital and for the packages she continued to send them at the Front (November 1914 - January 1917); 2 ms letters to Daisy (4pp) from a Charles Brook while serving in the 2nd King Edward's Horse (Canadian Cavalry Brigade); 2 ms letters (3pp) to Daisy and an Uncle Lewis from a Sydney Brook, giving updates on Archie Brook, Sir Henry's brother-in-law, also serving at Gallipoli; and 20 photographs including two portraits of Darlington and two photographs of Archie Brook's grave at Gallipoli.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-07-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Darlington, Henry Clayton | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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