Description: | Two scrapbooks, the first of his service in 1/1st Warwickshire Yeomanry (2nd Mounted Division, August 1914 - January 1916, then 5th Mounted Brigade, January 1916 - February 1917, then Imperial Mounted Division, February - June 1917, then Australian Mounted Division), August 1914 - January 1918, with letters, reports, maps and photographs from Gallipoli, August - December 1915, and in Egypt and Palestine, January 1916 - January 1918, including the Battle of Gaza and the cavalry charge at Huj, and the second relating to his time as ADC and Brigade Intelligence Officer of the 5th Mounted Brigade, January 1918 - September 1920, including letters and reports describing conditions in the desert and the actions at Amman, April - May 1918, at Nazareth, September 1918, the capture of Aleppo, October 1918 and the occupation of Palestine.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1984-02 |