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Description: | An excellent series of portions of illustrated letters (10 sheets belonging to a letter sequence, 26 sheets of pen, ink and coloured crayon drawings and 2 watercolours), one dated 7 September 1916, written to a friend while serving as a Church of England Chaplain to the Forces in France, between July 1916 and April 1917, with 151st Infantry Brigade (50th Division), attached to 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (with whom he had links going back to April 1900), describing his life, and the conditions and surroundings, on the Western Front, the physical and mental strains of the war and one of the first tank attacks and the impressions it made on him.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1981-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Durham Light Infantry 8th Battalion British Army 151st Infantry Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lomax, Cyril | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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