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Description: | Extensive collection of 128 ms letters written home to his family and fiancee while serving as a Private with the 16th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (93rd Brigade, 31st Division) on the Western Front (January 1916 – February 1917) before being captured by the Germans and spending the remainder of the war in captivity in Langensalza prisoner of war camp, Germany (February 1917 – December 1918); referring to his military training in Lincolnshire, the family butcher business back home near Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, the sensations of being under attack, his health and living conditions in the trenches, the receipt of parcels when a prisoner of war, and his work on a farm in Germany. Together with 51 ms letters written to him by his fiancée Lilly (January 1916 – December 1918); 14 ms letters written to Lilly and others from his brother Harold (1914 – 1918); 27 ms letters of condolence written to the Woolliscroft family after William was declared missing in action (February – June 1917); and various other correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs showing William, Lilly and other family members.
Cataloguer APR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Woolliscroft, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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