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Description: | Microfilm copy of a collection of 29 ms letters written to his parents who lived near York describing his service on the Western Front as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (99th Brigade, 2nd Division) (January - February 1916) and with the 31st Battalion Machine Gun Corps (31st Division) (May - August 1918), including details of conditions in the front line, the Officer's School of Instruction at Béthune, the responsibilities of a billeting officer, an encounter with General Sir Charles Monro and the impact of religion on the troops, criticism of Asquith and Haldane "for deceiving us about the Germans", his opinions on the reasons for Germany's recent military successes (June 1918), praise for the American troops, his involvement in the Nieppe Forest advance (July 1918), the common desire for home leave, training at the Machine Gun School, and his time in No 46 Stationary Hospital with dysentery prior to evacuation back to the United Kingdom (August 1918).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-16 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Peters, M W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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