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Description: | An interesting collection of 40 ms letters (2 incomplete) and 2 postcards written to his wife in Northampton, where he had been an employee of the Co-operative Wholesale Society, and other members of the family, December 1916 – August 1917, a 1916 pocket diary containing ms entries for June – August 1917, some official correspondence relating to his Army service and death in action, 1917 – 1922, his MTASC identity discs, an ‘in memoriam’ Christmas card sent by his widow in 1917 and copies of two Northampton newspapers (August – September 1917) including obituary notices on him, together with an edited and extensively illustrated wordprocessed transcript of nearly all these documents (91pp), covering his training as a transport driver in an MTASC Company in South East London (December 1916 – March 1917), his transfer to the infantry and training with the 83rd Training Reserve Battalion in Gateshead and Co Durham (March – June 1917), his crossing to France and further training at the Infantry Base Depot in Etaples (June 1917) and his active service as a private in the 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (96th Infantry Brigade, 32nd Division) near Nieuport in the Yser sector from the beginning of July until he was killed on 10-11 August 1917. His letters and diary include useful references to his training, their rations, both in England and on the Western Front, coming under shellfire, being employed on working parties, his attitude towards the dangers of active service (17 March, 4 June, 29 July and 9 August 1917) and the morale of his fellow soldiers (1 August 1917).
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 96th Brigade Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers British Army 32nd Division 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tyler, Horace William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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