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Description: | A collection of 61 ms letters (190pp) to his wife Gwendolen and father-in-law, Lord Emmott, written while serving in England and France with the 1/8th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), from August 1914 to his death in action (24 March 1918), describing his training and accommodation, criticism of his officers, first experiences in the front line, the Battle of Festubert (May 1915), casualties, dug-outs and trenches, his promotions, German counter attacks at the Hohenzollern Redoubt (October 1915), a heavy German attack on Vimy Ridge (May 1916), appointment as Brigade Major of 22nd Brigade and then 142nd Brigade (November - December 1917), and his growing sick and tired of the squalor and dirt. Together with: a letter from Lord Emmott to his daughter relating to his Cabinet post as Commissioner of Public Works (5pp, August 1914); three ts cyclostyled letters describing the attack on High Wood (September 1916); letters of sympathy to Mrs Peel on his capture (later confirmed as death) (April - May 1918); two letters from the German man who found and buried Peel's body (March and July 1918); official letters and telegrams informing his wife of his being missing and then confirmation that he had been killed (April - June 1918); a Calendar of photographs and sketches of the Post Office Rifles in France (17pp, 1916); and a photograph of Peel.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) British Army 1/8th (City of London) Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Peel, Home | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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