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Description: | Photocopies of 15 ms letters dated August 1915 - December 1918 and written during his service in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) principally while attached to 88th Field Ambulance, 88th Brigade, 29th Division, describing the reception of wounded from the Dardanelles campaign aboard SS CALEDONIA, the evacuation from Suvla Bay and Cape Helles, treatment of casualties and the enemy's willingness to surrender during the Battle of the Somme (July - October 1916), conditions on the Western Front and official reaction to the sinking of hospital ships (April 1917), opinions of the WAAC and the state of recently liberated French villages (October 1918) and conditions generally following the Armistice; also photocopies of 11 ms. letters dated November 1939 - August 1945 written by his wife Louisa with references to civilian conditions generally in Harrogate where they were both living, rationing, conditions in Leeds after a bad air raid (March 1941), Christmas celebrations (1944), and local celebrations for VE and VJ Days.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1987-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 88th Brigade 88th Field Ambulance British Army Royal Army Medical Corps 29th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Johnson, Frank Davidson | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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