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Description: | A short series of ms letters covering his service as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 50th Divisional Ammunition Column in France, August - November 1918, together with a long series of ms letters from his brother, Dr J R Rees, who served with the Friends Ambulance Unit in France, October 1914 - November 1915, and then as an RAMC officer with the 58th Field Ambulance and the 36th Casualty Clearing Station in France, May - November 1916, and the 33rd Motor Ambulance Convoy in Mesopotamia, August 1917 - January 1919. The collection also contains many interesting ms letters from his friends, many of whom were, like himself, members of the Student Christian Movement, and which reflect their dilemma about their duty in wartime, of particular interest being the letter describing the destroyer HMS ONSLAUGHT's part in the Battle of Jutland, and the series of letters written by Captain A R Rigby during service with the 8th Battalion The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (146th Brigade, 49th Division) and on the staff of the 49th Division on the Western Front, 1916 - 1917.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1976-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rees, R D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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