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Description: | Photocopies of 84 ms letters (320pp) and 8 field postcards (February 1914 - October 1919) covering his First World War service as a regular officer of the Bedfordshire Regiment: as a Captain transferred to the Royal Flying Corps for training as an observer (February - August 1914); a GSO3 in the Aeronautic Section of the War Office (August 1914) for the period of mobilisation; an observer with No 3 Squadron RFC on the Western Front, particularly at Soissons (August 1914 - February 1915); the Brigade Major of 53rd Infantry Brigade (18th Division) at home and in France (February - September 1915); a GSO2 at HQ VI Army Corps (September 1915 - January 1916) in the Ypres Salient; a temporary Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 8th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (16th Brigade, 6th Division), also around Ypres (January - April 1916) where he was wounded and evacuated to England; in command of the 175th Infantry Brigade (58th Division) at home (August 1916 - March 1917) and in France (March 1917 - April 1918); a temporary Major General commanding 50th Division (May 1918 - March 1919) during the German spring offensive along the Aisne, the advance into Picardy, and during demobilisation; a temporary Brigadier General in command of 2nd Brigade, Eastern Division, British Army of the Rhine (March - August 1919) at Cologne; and in command of a brigade with the North Russian Expeditionary Force (August - October 1919) during the evacuation from Murmansk and Archangel. These letters are particularly good in revealing his enthusiasm for the war effort and his interest in the political situation in Ireland (1914) and England (1916), and include good comments on the future of the Royal Flying Corps, the mobilisation of the BEF (August 1914), the death of Lord Kitchener (June 1916), various schemes started for the education of the troops after the Armistice (December 1918), the friendliness of German civilians towards the Allied occupying forces (May 1919), and the evacuation from Murmansk (September 1919). Also with the collection is a ts copy (53pp) of his daily observation reports while serving with No 3 Squadron in France (August 1914 - February 1915).
Cataloguer PJG
Catalogue date 1995-06-17 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jackson, Henry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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