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Description: | Collection of 15 undated ms letters (total 37pp plus three postcards) written to his wife and three daughters during service with the 2/6th Battalion London Regiment (City of London Rifles) (58th Division) on the Western Front in the First World War, describing garrison duty in Ipswich and on the east coast, and at Sutton Very; it seems likely that he served with the Division through Bullecourt, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, and the 2nd Battle of Ypres. Together with five ms letters (12pp) and a postcard mostly dating from 1915 from his children to him; seven ms letters (20pp, eleven of which are photocopies) dating from May 1915 to August 1917 from his mother to him; seven ms/ts letters of sympathy (8pp) to his wife and children following his death on 28 March 1918 when the Battalion was serving on the Aisne (some sources list him as being killed by shellfire in February 1918). Also a ms notebook (62pp) containing notes on constructing an Aldershot Oven Mk II, a raised kettle trench, travelling kitchens and food preparation and cooking; a silk postcard and two 'in memoriam' cards.
Cataloguer AJC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | London Regiment (Rifles) British Army 2/6th (City of London) Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cutmore, James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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