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Description: | Ms letter (12pp), with ts transcript (3pp), dated 13 September 1916, written from Orchard Convalescent Hospital in Dartford, Kent to his brother in Cairo giving an account of his experiences while serving as a private with the 1/2nd Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) (169th Brigade, 56th Division) during the first day of the Battle of the Somme and describing in particular his Battalion's attack on Gommecourt Wood where they were able to advance to the third German support lines before running out of ammunition and retreating, the arm wound he received and his time in No Man's Land until his rescue, and his commanding officer's explanation that the Division had been used as a decoy to attract fire away from the main attack; together with an empty 'green envelope' addressed to him by his brother in September 1917, but returned marked 'deceased'; a ts transcript (1p) of a letter, dated 10 September 1917, from the Reverend R A E Colborne, the Chaplain of the 1st Battalion London Regiment, to Inglefield's mother reporting that he had been listed as missing after a bombardment on the Ypres-Menin Road on 16 August 1917; and two laser copy photographs of him in uniform.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-07-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) British Army 1/2nd (City of London) Battalion 169th Brigade 56th Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Inglefield, Frank Langley | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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