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Description: | Ms transcription (354pp made ca. 1918) of an excellent series of letters written by him to his family, December 1914 - January 1918, describing in very vivid terms his service as a rifleman with the 8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (41st Brigade, 14th Division) training in England (Winchester, Hindhead, Aldershot and Bordon) from December 1914 to May 1915, including an episode of guarding aliens being abused by locals, his service in the trenches around Messines and Ypres, giving precise accounts of his first and subsequent experiences of coming under fire, especially when serving on ration parties, of 'dodging' shells, trench life routines and conditions, a gas attack, surviving at the front, the countryside, the devastation, and his experiences as a prisoner of war in hospital at Courtrai, Belgium (July - October 1915) and in camps in Germany at Limburg (October 1915 - February 1916) and Giessen (February 1916 onwards). He also makes frequent sincere appreciative remarks about people sending troops/POW comforts. Also 32 photographs and a printed booklet relating to the POW camps.
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Catalogue date 1988-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Britland, Bernard | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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