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Description: | 2 ms diaries (126pp) written during his training and service as an observer with the Royal Garrison Artillery (October 1914 - July 1915), covering his postings to training camps at Newhaven, Sussex (October - December 1914), Tynemouth, Northumberland (December 1914 - March 1915), Lydd, Kent (April - May 1915), and Bristol (May 1915) and his service with 21 Siege Battery RGA on the Western Front; together with 247 ms letters (500pp) and 8 postcards sent to his fiancée during his training and active service, ultimately in the rank of Sergeant (October 1914 - January 1918), including good details of his first impressions of the training camps and of France, reports on his duties as an observer, the attention given to the Battery by civilians at home and abroad, the strict discipline of the British Army, his experiences in the trenches and on position-finding work in the hills around Ypres, and the mental effects of regular participation in heavy fighting. Also with the collection are 135 ms letters (299pp) to him from his fiancée in Sheffield (May 1913 - June 1915, May 1917) with some notes on her entertainment and life at home, ms letters from his mother in Rotherham (November 1914 - May 1915) and brother in China (February 1915, January 1917), personal family papers (1921 - 1952), an RGA loose-leaf training note book kept by Sugden (c.1914) and an edited volume (199pp, excluding illustrations and appendices) of transcriptions of his letters.
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 2002-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sugden, W A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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