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Description: | Two ms accounts (9pp), plus a ts transcription (5pp), relating to his service with the 1/1st West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own) (South Eastern Mounted Brigade, 42nd Division) at Gallipoli, describing a night spent in a crater whilst bombing the Turks, the shelling of the Gallipoli coast by the British Navy and attempts by the Turks to sink a small British patrol boat. Together with his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the RGA, 2 March 1917, a press cutting concerning a letter written to his mother from Gallipoli, 14 January 1916, and an album of photographs covering his service in Gallipoli (1915) and home leave the following year.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1978-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clifford, G F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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