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Description: | 183 ms letters written to his fiance, February 1916 - December 1918 including 96 he wrote, February - December 1916, while working in the Ministry of Munitions in London as a clerk in the staff section in which he talks about London, Zeppelin raids, entertainment, and the internal politics of the Ministry, and then about his attempts to join the RFC or the RNAS while waiting to be conscripted into the army, together with 87 letters he wrote while serving as a Sapper with No. 2 Light Railway Operating Section, RE in France and Belgium, January 1917 - December 1918, in which this reluctant soldier talks about his living conditions, and work both on the railways and after the March Offensive as a pioneer company, discusses troop morale and the quality of native and US troops, but mainly tells her of his love and agonises about their difficult relationship.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1987-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 2nd Light Railway Operating Section Royal Engineers British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Firth, W H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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