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Description: | The only Church of England padre in Kut during the siege, his records include a full and important ms diary, with ts transcription, of his service with the 6th Anglo-Indian Division from December 1915 until the end of the War, including his experiences in captivity, together with a series of letters written home, 1917 - 1918, notes on all the burials during the siege and in captivity, correspondence about conditions to which prisoners of war were subjected, ts transcriptions of letters written by an officer in the Relieving Force and of the diary of another officer in the garrison, various papers accumulated during the siege, and a number of maps and diagrams. Also with the collection is a watercolour painting of the altar in the chapel at Changri camp, Turkey, where he was imprisoned.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1976-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire Defence of Kut Al Amara 1915-1916 Indian Army First World War 6th Indian Division Church of England | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Spooner, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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