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Description: | Photocopies of ten ms poems (14pp) and three ms letters (10pp) written March 1913 - August 1915, partly while at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and then with 7th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment from August 1914 to his death in action at Hulluch, north of Loos (13 October 1915). The poems were later published in 'Marlborough and Other Poems' (Cambridge University Press, 1916), and the letter to his Aunt Mary contains details about conditions in France and Belgium (August 1915). Together with a ts script (5pp) for a ceremony dedicating 'Sorley's Signpost' at Marlborough College (October 1976), and an issue of 'The Marlburian' containing an account of the dedication ceremony.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 7th (Service) Battalion British Army Suffolk Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sorley, Charles Hamilton | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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