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Description: | Ms transcription (67pp) of extracts from the letters written home during his service as CRA, Guards Division, March - December 1916 (except September), describing their service in the Ypres Salient up to July and then on the Somme, containing good descriptions of conditions on the Western Front and especially of artillery activity, some insights into his exercise of command, several interesting comments on the general progress of the war and the high morale of the officers and men of the Guards Division, and a reference to the death in action of the music hall star Basil Hallam. With the letters are a number of the writer's contemporary pencil sketches (often cut out of his original letters) prompted by his experiences on active service and several related Special Orders of the Day and other documents and presscuttings.
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Catalogue date 1986-03-17 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Evans, W (Brigadier General) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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