Description: | 65 ms letters (including 6 transcribed by others) written to his mother and two sisters, July 1915 - October 1917, while serving with the 1st Dorset Yeomanry (2nd Mounted Division, 1915; 6th Mounted Brigade, January 1916; Imperial Mounted Division, February 1917) in the United Kingdom, February - March 1915, before embarking for active service at Gallipoli, July - October 1915, where he acted as a Military Landing Officer on 'A' Beach East, Suvla Bay; then as Second in Command of his Regiment in Egypt, March 1916 - March 1917, and finally as Commanding Officer during the Palestine campaign, March - October 1917, including references to the 1st and 2nd Battles of Gaza. Together with a small number of related papers including his demobilisation records.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1985-09 |