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Description: | Ts transcript of 75 letters (103pp) written home during both the First and Second World Wars, firstly between 27 September 1915 and 5 April 1918 while serving with the 1/1st Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and France and then between 14 December 1936 and 17 February 1958 while acting as the Commandant of the Alexandria City Police in Egypt between 1936 and 1946, remaining in Egypt after his retirement. The First World War letters were written to his family, mentioning the hardships of life in the trenches at Gallipoli, including the desolate countryside, poor weather, flies, lice, diarrhoea, jaundice, dysentery and trench foot; also going on patrol and working parties, his duties as an Embarkation Officer, the Zeppelin raids on England, the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula in December 1915 and his subsequent time in Alexandria. The letters from the Second World War while serving as Commandant contain mostly family matters, mentioning the political unrest and economic matters in Egypt, a fear of hostilities during the Suez crisis and his personal dislike of Anthony Eden.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-12-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Baker, F D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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