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Description: | Word processed transcription (22pp), with background notes, of letters written by him to his parents in Kidderminster during his service with 11th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (August 1914 - July 1916) in Gallipoli and France, covering his emigration to Australia in early 1914, his enlistment and training in Australia, his embarkation for Egypt (March 1915), his wounding in action at 'Leane's Trench', Gallipoli, and evacuation to Alexandria by hospital ship, his return to England (September 1915), and posting to his regiment in Alexandria (March 1916) and to the Somme in France (June 1916), and including details of his training, the trench action against the Turks, conditions in France, and his death in action at Pozieres (July 1916).
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 2007-11-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pheysey, W E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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