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Description: | Ms letter (5pp), 20 - 21 November 1918, with a ts transcription (2pp), written to his mother following his release as a prisoner of war after being captured whilst serving as a stretcher bearer with the 15th Battalion London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles) on the Western Front, describing how dirty overcrowded billets, lack of food, hygiene facilities and medical attention and the long hours of work enforced upon them led to the deaths of several POW's, making his way to Namur in Belgium after the Armistice where he was cared for by a local family, being admitted to hospital for treatment and his hopes of returning to England and his family in time for Christmas.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007-08-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clulow, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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