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Description: | 33 ms letters (140pp) written to his wife whilst staying in Berlin on business, 3 – 10 December 1913, also covering his service as a Lieutenant with the 21st Battalion London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) (142nd Brigade, 47th Division), 18 March – 23 May 1915, conveying his life in the trenches of the Western Front, with references to the grim weather conditions, the problems he faced due to his asthma, a suicide within his Battalion (27 April 1915), his perceptions of the local people and the sinking of the SS LUSITANIA (7 May 1915); together with six ms letters (15pp) and two ms telegrams (2pp) of condolence, revealing how he was killed in action on 25 May 1915, ts letter (1p) from the War Office announcing his being awarded the British War and Victory Medals, 21 October 1921, as well as a ts letter (2pp) sent by the Imperial War Graves Commission, 25 November 1925, concerning the location of where he was buried.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army London Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hull, Lionel H R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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