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Description: | A collection of 107 ms and ts letters (255pp) mainly written by members of the Armed Forces during the period April 1965 - January 1966 and recording their participation in collective indiscipline, strikes or mutinies during October 1914 - 1946 based in the United Kingdom (October 1914 - June 1921), notably at RAF Eastchurch (April 1921 - June 1921); on the Western Front (December 1915 - 1919), notably the mutinies at Etaples (September 1917) and after the Armistice (February 1919); amongst the crew of HMS CAESAR off the coast of the United States of America and at Constantinople, Turkey (August 1918 - June 1919); in Egypt, at Kantara (March 1919); the mutiny of the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers at Solon and Jullundur in India (June 1920); the mutiny at Invergordon (1931); an unlawful raid by troops on a village in India (1934); in the UK (June 1939 - 1941); amongst Army and RAF troops in Canada at Halifax, Nova Scotia (September 1941) and Calgary, Alberta (1942); the mutiny of troops from the 50th and 51st Division at Salerno (September 1943); a "mutiny" in the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (1944); and by soldiers and RAF personnel in India, Malaya and Singapore (1946). The letters comment on the reasons for collective indiscipline, morale, living conditions, demobilisation and ill-discipline amongst Irish troops, while mentioning in passing Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Field Marshal Earl Haig and R C Sherriff.
Cataloguer SHJ
Catalogue date 2001-03-30 | 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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