Description: | 235 ms letters written to his family in England while he was serving with the Royal Horse Artillery in India, August - November 1914, and with V Battery RHA in France, November 1914 - January 1915, with D Battery, 65th Brigade Royal Field Artillery (12th Division) under training in England, January - May 1915 and on the Western Front, May 1915 - December 1916, in command of 106th Brigade RFA (24th Division) on the Western Front, January - May 1917, until he was wounded, then with 52nd Reserve Battery at Aldershot after convalescence, October - December 1917, and briefly with 293rd Brigade RFA (20th Division) on the Western Front, February 1918 - June 1919, with interesting descriptions of the confusion and uncertainty faced by regular officers in India during the first few months of the war, of conditions generally on the Western Front and of his duties as an artillery officer and also including references to German spies, his views on conscription, the influenza epidemic of 1918 and his life in France after the Armistice.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2001-10 |