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Description: | 30 interesting ms letters, January 1913 - January 1917, written by a regular British officer attached to the Northern Nigeria Regiment describing his service in the 2nd Battalion based at Lokoja, Nigeria prior to the outbreak of war (January 1913 - August 1914) including an account of the Durbar held in January 1913 at Kano to celebrate the arrival of the new Commissioner of Northern Nigeria, Sir Frederick Lugard, the attachment of his company after the commencement of hostilities to the Yola column (August 1914 - March 1916) which laid siege to the German station of Garua in the Cameroons, the surrender of the garrison there in June 1915 followed by a series of operations at Ngaundere, Tingere and Tibati, giving a useful account of the difficult conditions encountered through having to fight in the bush, his return following a period of leave at home to join the 4th Battalion in East Africa (December 1916) until his death in action in January 1917 during an action near the Rufiji river, together with an ms letter (3pp) from his Commanding Officer describing the circumstances of his death and a small collection of papers concerning the service and death of his brother, Major T H Barclay, comprising 2 ms letters from Salonika where he was serving in the Surrey Yeomanry (October - December 1916) mostly commenting in general on his situation but asking for musical instruments to form a band and two footballs, an ms transcription of a letter (2pp, May 1917) from an officer in the Royal Irish Regiment describing their attempts to rescue survivors from the transport SS TRANSYLVANIA after it had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean as a result of which Barclay died from exhaustion, a newspaper cutting stating that they had both been awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea and 2 newspaper accounts of the sinking published in the TIMES and the SCOTSMAN.
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Catalogue date 1997-05-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 4th Battalion Nigeria Regiment British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Barclay, George Eric | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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