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Description: | Bound ts transcripts (198pp) of a series of letters written by him while Headmaster of the National Schools in Fletching, Sussex, to his eldest son in Canada, August 1914 - December 1918, tracing in particular the effect of the war on the writer's large family and the local community and including references to and opinions about the patriotic fervour at the outset of the war, the progress of recruitment and later of conscription, civilian attitudes towards the government's conduct of the war and men in uniform, the censorship, news of casualties, the air raids on London (where two of his married daughters were living) by Zeppelins and Gothas, and rising prices and rationing, together with photocopies of five ms letters written by him (while resident in Surrey) and two of his daughters at the time of the Munich agreement and the outbreak of the Second World War.
Cataloguer CP
Catalogue date 1978-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Saunders, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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