|
Date: |
|
Description: | Papers (circa 250pp) concerning his service as a Subaltern with the Royal Engineers making maps at Gallipoli (April - winter 1915), briefly in Egypt and subsequently as part of a Field Survey Unit on the Western Front during the First World War, including photographs and drawings of ships, landscapes and the people encountered when he was stationed in the Mediterranean as well as reports, trench maps and panoramic photographs collected whilst carrying out reconnaissance work in France, together with other personal items such as his ration book, clothing coupons, currency, theatre programmes and Christmas cards and three newspaper articles (4pp) announcing his death in November 1989; accompanied by a ts memoir (59pp) written by Major A J Wheatcroft, recording the history of the 2nd Field Company RE.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-12-20 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Nicholas, T C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
|