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Description: | Photocopies (7pp) of three ms letters written between November 1914 and July 1915 to Lieutenant Colonel R G I Bolton by his fellow officers while he was a prisoner of war in Crefeld, Germany following his capture on 25/26 October 1914 at the First Battle of Ypres where he was commanding the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards (Guards Division). Apart from personal and regimental news, the letters contain interesting/amusing remarks about the Germans, the prospects of victory and a paean to the New Armies. Together with a photocopy (1p) of an envelope carrying German and British First World War censor marks.
Cataloguer Backlog
Catalogue date 1985-10-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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