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Description: | Ts letter (11pp) with ms corrections to his fiancé (dated December 1919), detailing his journey from Gravesend to Bombay on the RMS KAISER-I-HIND (October – November 1919) with the 1st Battalion Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment (13th Brigade, 5th Division), describing daily life on board, games played with fellow passengers and concerts given by the 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment (37th Indian Brigade, 14th Indian Division), as well as his interactions with Egyptian traders and Armenian refugees around the Suez Canal and Indian dock workers in the Port of Aden.
Cataloguer BEK | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bond, Charles Henry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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