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Description: | 22 ms letters (47pp) written home to his family during service as a Private with the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards (20th Brigade, 7th Division) on the Western Front, February - July 1915, describing his conviction that he is fighting a 'righteous war' and that he will survive, while witnessing cooking practised at the base by Indian troops, attending an address by the Bishop of London, his wounding in the neck and hospitalisation where he witnessed a gas casualty, and referring to his views on Zeppelin raids over the east coast of Britain, women tram conductors and his low opinion of the Germans. Taylor was evacuated with Shell Shock in July 1915, and the collection includes an ms letter (1p) written to him by his parents, 11 April 1915; a photocopy (4pp) of his attestation form; a press cutting (1p) listing him as wounded; a portrait photograph of his brother Frank and a page from a concert programme.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2002-11-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Taylor, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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