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Description: | Original ms letters, August 1914 - May 1919, and ms diary, January - October 1915, covering his service as a private in the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, redesignated 88th Field Ambulance (29th Division) in January 1915, in East Anglia and the West Midlands (September 1914 - March 1915) and at Gallipoli (April - October 1915) where he describes conditions on the Peninsula in some detail, notably the sickness among the troops, the birds and butterflies and the prevalence of rumours about the progress of the campaign, then his hospitalisation in Egypt and return to join the 4/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance at Tring (October 1915 - March 1916), officer training with the 8th Cadet Battalion, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield (April - c. July 1916), appointment to the 6th Reserve Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment at Clipstone Camp (November 1916 - January 1917), convalescence from the continuing effects of his sickness at Gallipoli at Coldstream (March - c. November 1917), transfer to the Royal Flying Corps for training with No 49 Squadron at Doncaster (November 1917 - January 1919) and post-war correspondence from Oxford, with photographs of Gallipoli, printed papers about the fauna and lepidoptera of the Peninsula, additional correspondence and other miscellaneous papers. Also held with the collection are ts transcriptions (103 and 118pp respectively) of the complete diary and his letters home for September 1914 - October 1915, an ms note (1p) from his medical officer authorising him to be evacuated to 88th Field Ambulance, nd, and a printed map book used by Buxton during his command of No 909 (Barrage Balloon) Squadron AAF in London, 1940 - 1941.
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Catalogue date 1997-07-30 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Buxton, D A J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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