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Description: | Ms letter (10pp) (dated 28 September 1915) with annotated transcription, written while he was serving in the 7th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (45th Brigade, 15th Division) and describing the first two days of the Battle of Loos, including the sounds of the opening bombardment, his Company's attempts to take Hill 70 where they were forced to hold their positions until reinforcements arrived the next afternoon, the sight of the many corpses and disembowelled animals on the battlefield, the accuracy of the Battalion's rifle fire in repelling a German counterattack, and details of his own hand injury along with a postscript explaining that his Company were not to blame for the failure of the attack, but rather the incapable NCOs of the New Army who were sent up as reinforcements. Included are several photocopied maps of the Battle of Loos, an outline of a program of amusements for soldiers at Schloss and a sheet of Staff Notes on the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, as well as a letter written by one A W Josephs regarding his complaints of mistreatment at the hands of his section (May 1949) and the commission (January 1906) and photograph (1908) of one 2nd Lieutenant G Rennie of the Grenadier Guards.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-07-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Carleton, P N | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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