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Description: | Nine lengthy photocopied ts letters (23pp) written to his parents whilst serving with the Army Education Corps in Constantinople, July - October 1922, most of which are very well-written and describe the sights of the city, but also including references to the tense political situation, the arrival of British reinforcements and large numbers of British battleships in the Bosphorus, the jubilation of the Turks at their victory over the Greeks in August, and the Armenian massacre at Smyrne in September. Together with an Army Ordnance Corps postcard, and papers relating to Mesopotamia, including illustrated menus and demobilisation papers (1918).
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1977-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Carus Wilson, M M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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