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Description: | 36 ms letters written to his parents (116pp) while serving as an officer with the 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment in the UK and France, August 1915 - September 1916, and the Machine Gun Corps in the UK, Egypt, India, Palestine and Mesopotamia, January 1917 - June 1919, including: service in the UK, August 1915 - July 1916; his arrival and active service in France, September 1916; his transfer to the Machine Gun Corps in Ripon, January 1917 - March 1917; his journey to India, March 1917; active service in India, October 1917 - December 1917; Mesopotamia, January 1918 - August 1918; and Egypt and Palestine, August 1918 - June 1919; and commenting on training at the Base near Boulogne (September 1916); enemy shelling; the conditions; German raids; life in India, Baghdad, and Alexandria; the shooting of an Indian deserter to discourage others; his boredom; his off-duty entertainment; and his employment plans for after the war. Also included are 3 Field Service Post Cards, 4 newspaper cuttings, 2 posters, 2 sheets of mounted pictures, 1 postcard, and photograph albums relating to his service in Egypt, India, Palestine, and Mesopotamia.
Cataloguer SNR
Catalogue date 2001-03-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Heath, D F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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