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Description: | Ts transcribed extracts from 44 letters (38pp) sent to his mother whilst serving as a 2nd Lieutenant and then later as a Captain with the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (73rd Brigade, 24th Division) stationed in France, 21 August 1916 - 5 November 1918, reporting primarily the intensity of the fighting going on around him and his living conditions as well as daily activities in the trenches of the Western Front, his wounding on the battlefield and being sent to Kings College Hospital in London to recover (April 1917), returning to his battalion (November 1917) and the further training he received away from the Front Line (February 1918), including particularly meticulous descriptions of the preparations for and his actions throughout the German Spring Offensive (March 1918) and the Battle of the Somme (1918) which eventually won him the Military Cross in September 1918, finally noting his movements during the last months of the First World War, including an article (2pp) he wrote, entitled The Soldier's Bath', printed in the National News, 10 June 1917, in which he offers some interesting opinions regarding the sanitary conditions experienced on the Front Line.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2008-02-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Williamson, G A (Captain) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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