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Description: | A good collection centred around approximately 280 ms letters, most with ts transcripts, written to his family in Japan and Hertfordshire and covering his service in the ranks of the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance (later the 88th Field Ambulance, 29th Division) under training in East Anglia, September - December 1914, and as a subaltern and later Company Commander in the 1/6th Battalion Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment (147th Brigade, 49th Division) in the Doncaster area, January - June 1915, and on the Western Front, June - July 1915 and from March 1916 until he was severely wounded in April 1918. The correspondence includes references to the Battalion's service in the Battle of the Somme (July - September 1916), operations on the Flanders coast (August 1917), the fighting at Poelcappelle on 9 October 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres, and the German offensive in March 1918, and reveals the writer's anxiety to reconcile the nature of the demands of the war with his very strong Christian principles. With the letters are ts memoirs and copies of his diary, May 1916 - April 1918, with further information about military activities, four field message books, July 1915 - April 1917, various operational orders and official memoranda, September 1916 - July 1918, copies of lectures delivered at the 3rd Army Infantry School, October - November 1916, miscellaneous printed material and maps.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1978-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 1/6th Battalion British Army 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) Royal Army Medical Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Buxton, Barclay Gordon | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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