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Description: | A collection of papers relating to his service as a Medical Officer in the Indian Medical Service during the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915, comprising; a ts account (6pp) of the Battle of Sari Bair, when he was temporarily in command of 1/6th Gurkha Rifles due to all senior officers becoming casualties (August 1915); ts transcriptions of Field Messages received during that period; ts transcriptions of two letters written to Mrs Phipson from Colonel S L Allanson (August and November 1915); a ts copy of a letter (1p) from Major General H V Cox congratulating Phipson on his DSO; photocopies of his certificates for his Mention in Despatches and his DSO; ms transcriptions (4pp) of extracts from letters written by his wife to her sister in which she quotes from Phipson's letters to her; and a photocopy of an article about Phipson from the Daily Telegraph (1976). | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 6 - 21 August 1915 1st Battalion Battle of Sari Bair Indian Medical Service 6th Gurkha Rifles British Army Indian Army First World War Gallipoli | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Phipson, Edward Selby | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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