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Description: | An interesting collection of documents relating to the Connaught Rangers during the First World War, comprising a photocopied Battalion Order (1p) for the 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers (47th Brigade, 16th Division) concerning their return to the trenches, 28 June 1916; a ts article (9pp) describing the rest periods when battalions were taken out of the front line and a "stunt" in which his platoon fortified a mine crater; a ts transcription (15pp) of a letter describing an attack on 19 September 1918 on the Turkish lines near Kep-Saba and the subsequent pursuit of the retreating Turks, and mentioning his guarding of Turkish prisoners in a prisoner of war camp at El Afulah; an ms letter (32pp) written to his mother from which the previous ts was drawn, 22 September 1918; a photocopied ts article (37pp) based on a letter to his mother from No 2 General Hospital, St Marks College Chelsea, dated 10 - 13 September 1916, in which he describes the conditions in the trenches opposite Guillemont during a bombardment and then an attack on Guillemont on 3 September in gripping and horrifying detail.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1977-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 6th Battalion British Army 16th Division Connaught Rangers 47th Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | O'Sullivan, J F Blake | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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