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Description: | 480 ms letters, August 1914 - February 1919, written to his wife while serving as a captain in the 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (34th Brigade, 11th Division) describing mainly personal matters but also his enlistment, training in England (August 1914 - May 1915); voyage to, amd life on Lemnos and Imbros and the landings at Suvla Bay and the attack on Chocolate hill, when he was slightly wounded (July - August 1915); voyage (via Lemnos) to, and life and conditions in, Egypt, where he was hospitalised with paratyphoid (January-June 1916); life and conditions in France and on the Western Front (July-September 1916) and life in France, Belgium and Germany with the Highland Light Infantry as a staff officer at HQ 101st Brigade, when he mentions the Allied advance (July 1918 - February 1919); together with two telegrams (30 September 1916 and 26 July 1918) and a photocopy of part of a ts memoir (12pp) giving a summary of his military career. A selected edition of the letters has been prepared by Christopher Carlisle and published under the title MY OWN DARLING (Carlisle Books, 1989).
Cataloguer NLY
Catalogue date 1987-04-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Northumberland Fusiliers 8th Battalion British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Carlisle, F M M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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