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Description: | 11 ms letters (25pp) written home to his parents during service as a 2nd Lieutenant and platoon commander with the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards (3rd Guards Brigade, Guards Division) in France, July - November 1918, covering his experiences of trench fighting and the battles around Haussy and Solesmes, in particular his participation in the fighting for St Python (October) for which he was recommended for the Military Cross, and including good details of trench warfare and living conditions; together with 2 ms letters (6pp), December 1914 and April 1915, from Brigadier F J Heyworth of the 20th Infantry Brigade including comments on the Western Front battles of 1915.
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 2002-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kindersley, Hugh | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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