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Description: | Ts letter (4pp) written to his parents during his service with the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (86th Brigade, 29th Division), 5 May 1915, recounting the journey he undertook in the cruiser HMS EURYALUS via Malta to the Gallipoli Peninsula and then in detail his dramatic landing on the beach at Cape Helles (25 April 1915), with vivid descriptions of the number of dead and wounded, the ferocious shelling he experienced, how he was shot in the back whilst attempting to take a Turkish trench and his being taken to a dressing station before embarking on the HMHS CALEDONIA to the Cottenera Hospital in Malta; accompanied by a photograph of him at Sandhurst talking to King George V.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Lancashire Fusiliers British Army George V King | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Haworth, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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