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Description: | Microfilm copy of 64 ms letters written to his family during service with the Queen's Westminster Rifles in France (November 1914 - April 1915), with the Lincolnshire Regiment in the United Kingdom (May 1915 - October 1916), attached to the 24th Brigade Machine Gun Company in France where he was wounded by shrapnel on the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres, and after recovery, his return to France as Adjutant to the 47th Machine Gun Battalion (August 1918 - June 1919), describing details of trench life, the prevalence of trench foot and frost bite, his first experiences in the front line and the wounding of his brother, the Christmas Truce of 1914, conditions in the Somme sector (December 1916), involvement in local attacks (March 1917), life in a rest camp and his thoughts on VADs and other welfare workers, a visit by Sir Douglas Haig, a conversation with the entertainer Leslie Henson, and his reflections on the Armistice; together with 3 ms letters written to him by his brother J J Gordon Walkinton also serving for the Queen's Westminster Rifles and describing the trenches and his hopes for a commission (June 1915 - December 1915).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Walkinton, M L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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