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Description: | A fine series of approximately 500 ms letters, written almost daily and chronicling in considerable detail his command of the 42nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery (3rd Division) in France and Belgium, August 1914 - March 1916, covering the Brigade's operations during the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and Aisne, the fighting around La Bassee (October - November 1914), the First Battle of Ypres, the actions at Bellewaarde and Hooge (summer 1915) and the recapture of the Bluff (March 1916), and also including extensive comments on the general progress of the campaign on the Western Front and the employment of artillery. His regular references to, and opinions about, other senior officers, and his own expectations of promotion, are revealing about the closely knit family structure of the officer corps of the 1914 Regular Army. With Geddes' letters are a group of 50 ms letters, nearly all written in July and August 1915, from Brigadier General C M Ross-Johnson, commanding 48th Divisional Artillery, to Mrs Geddes, of whom he was an intimate friend, which give some account of his service in France.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1978-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 42nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Geddes, G H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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