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Description: | 34 ms letters (101pp in total) written home to his parents while serving with the 1/6th Battalion Norfolk Regiment in the United Kingdom (October 1915), commenting on how his life has been changed by the war; then following a commission in November 1915, attendance at the Cambridge University School of Instruction for Officers (November - December 1915) and a further period spent training in the United Kingdom (January 1916 - October 1917) before active service with the 31st Divisional Signal Company RE on the Western Front (November 1917 - September 1918) where he describes his duties, attached for a time to the 93rd Infantry Brigade Headquarters, his billets, the reactions of French civilians to the war, morale at the front, Christmas celebrations, and the prevalence of refugees. Also held with the collection are his character and discharge certificates (each 2pp); a ms/ts list (1p) of the kit to be bought by men enlisting in the 1/6th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, ca September 1914; an undated printed form (1p) from the 31st Divisional Commander informing Lieutenant Emmerson that his name has been entered in the Record of the Division; a cyclostyled ts Diary of Operations (5pp) and ts Narrative of Operations (3pp) for the 93rd Infantry Brigade, covering the periods 22 - 30 March 1918 and 26 September - 1 October 1918 respectively, with attached map; printed booklet entitled 'Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action, 1917' (SS 143, 25pp); ms message form (AF C2128, 1p) announcing the Kaiser's abdication, nd; a signed Christmas dinner menu (2pp) from 1915; a theatre programme for Eastwood Amateur Dramatic Society, April 1907; his ?Cheshire Regiment cloth armband; a collection of 13 photographs dating from the war showing him and fellow soldiers of his unit; and 9 printed trench maps.
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Catalogue date 2001-09-19 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Emmerson, L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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