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Description: | 159 well-written and descriptive ms letters (262pp), plus partial ts transcript (13pp), October 1916 - March 1918, written home to his parents while serving as a subaltern with the 1/6th Battalion and from November 1917 the 2/10th (County of London) Battalion The London Regiment (175th Brigade, 58th Division) in France and Belgium, including some very good descriptions of the action in which he was involved together with useful references to the variable living conditions on the Western Front, letters and gifts from home, his concern over Zeppelin raids on London where his parents lived, food and the pooling of resources, the restrictions placed on officers while in the United Kingdom, brief training at 47th Divisional and II Corps Infantry Schools, the staging of a Christmas pantomime, his affinity for acquiring "war souvenirs", and periods spent in hospital, first with typhoid and later with a septic leg, both occasions leading to his evacuation back to the UK.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1998-02-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | London Regiment (Rifles) 175th Brigade British Army London Regiment (Hackney) 1/6th (City of London) Battalion 58th (London) Division 2/10th (County of London) Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Holt, Geoffrey N | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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