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Description: | 79 ms letter, 6 postcards and 10 cablegrams (321 folios including envelopes, October 1914 - March 1919) written by him while serving in the ranks of the 7th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers training in Ireland and England (October 1914 - May 1915), with the 6th Battalion at Sulva Bay, Gallipoli (September 1915) and Salonika (June 1916), with No 2 Officers Cadet Battalion at Emanuel College, Cambridge (November 1916) and as an officer with the South Persia Rifles at Kerman in Persia (November 1917 - February 1919). They are generally personal and sentimental, but give interesting insights into his patriotic fervour in 1914 and his defeatist views in 1918, and useful descriptions and critiques of Army training, conscription, the Irish rebellion of 1916, the carnage of the Western Front and his 'safe' position in Persia, the Armistice (especially his wife's description of its reception in Blackburn, Lancashire), and the situation in Persia (but very little detail on earlier theatres of war) and demands among officers in India in 1919 for repatriation.
Cataloguer PHR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 6th Battalion South Persia Rifles Royal Dublin Fusiliers British Army 7th Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sherwood, Thomas | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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