Description: | Photocopy of an ms notebook (164pp), dated 26 September 1916, written while serving as a Private in 22nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), in which, in a rather sentimental and emotional form, he sets down philosophic thoughts of life and conditions in France, his time in action, his fellow soldiers, life in England, especially as personified by the ideal of "Home Sweet Home", without particularly referring to the war; together with photocopies of an ms book of poems, dated July 1915, an ms notebook, undated, contrasting romanticised thoughts of home with life in France, mentioning food, housing, recreation and work, 22 ms transcript letters from his family, a Military Medal citation and presscutting of his marriage and two photographs of him in uniform. Together with a photograph of him in uniform.
Cataloguer CH
Catalogue date 1985-02 |