Description: | Well written 80 ms letters, with ts transcription (90pp), July 1914 - January 1919, in which he writes mainly about the weather, conditions he has to endure, and family matters but which include some comment on his experiences with the 3rd/8th Battalion TF, The Sherwood Foresters in Grantham, December 1915 - August 1916, with the 7th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (139th Brigade, 46th Division) in France, September - November 1916, then on a temporary posting to the 11th (service) Battalion, the Rifle Brigade (59th Brigade, 20th Division) on the Somme, November 1916 - February 1917, in hospital in England, February - May 1917, with the East Riding Yorkshire Yeomanry in Bridlington, York, June - August 1917, then with the 2nd/8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (178th Brigade, 59th Division) in France, September 1917 - February 1918, and finally with the 1st/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (139th Brigade, 46th Division) in France, March 1918 - January 1919, when he saw action during the German March Offensive, and the Allied Advance, including the storming of the St Quentin Canal, September 1918, and in which he mentions about the men under his command, the good quality of the American troops and the poor quality of the Australian forces, and demobilisation. Together with a collection of miscellaneous related documents, plus a series of 11 ms letters mainly from Miss Daphne Butler.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1986-01 |