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Description: | Graphic ms letter (2pp, plus envelope), dated 15 July 1915, from a subaltern serving with the 1st (West Riding) Field Company RE (29th Division) on the Cape Helles front at Gallipoli to a fellow officer at the Company's headquarters in Sheffield mentioning the 'perfect hell' of their landing from the RIVER CLYDE on 25 April, the high casualty rate among the officers, the fierce recent fighting (presumably at Gully Ravine) and also commenting that '...we are fighting under very much worse conditions here than in France...' identifying the heat, the sand, the flies and the smell from the hundreds of dead bodies as the principal problems.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2006-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Scott, E I | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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