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Description: | Papers relating principally to his military career comprising 4 notebooks (178pp, 102pp, 122pp and 111pp) with ms diary entries for October 1899 to August 1902, contemporary ms transcripts of 11 letters to his family (November 1899 – January 1900 and June – August 1900), and other papers, covering his journey to South Africa and service there as a regimental officer with 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, with good details of conditions, Army life, operations against the Boers including the Battles of Belmont, Graspan, Modder River, Magersfontein, Poplar River, Diamond Hill and Belfast and of his duties as Commandant of Hout Kraal (February - ?July 1901), as well as interesting references to his fellow officers, battalion casualties, thoughts on kit and equipment and on medical care, his attitude to the Boers, contact with local civilians and the execution by firing squad of 3 burghers in De Aar (March 1901), also 88 ms letters to his wife, written between November 1914 and March 1915, during his service on the Western Front as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards (20th Brigade, 7th Division) and prior to his death from wounds sustained at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle (March 1915), with excellent references to the Christmas Truce (see 25 – 30 December 1914) and providing also a useful record of conditions in the front line, the composition and calibre of the battalion, battalion casualties (especially 2nd Lieutenant F E Crisp, January 1915), his comments on senior officers and on other units in the Brigade, especially their shortcomings, his opposition to the formation of the Welsh Guards, his concern for his men and his wife’s welfare work with dependents, together with papers relating to his wife, Eveleen, including her passport (November 1914) and Red Cross travel documents (1919), 5 ms letters written by her in March 1919 describing her trip to Paris and a shell damaged Amiens and her long car journey through war torn France to Estaires, with references to her emotions on visiting her husband’s grave there and to her concern about influenza cases at home, as well a ts letter (5pp with ms addition) written circa January 1945 by her cousin Herbert Furrell describing the experiences of himself and his wife in occupied France, including their internment (as British subjects) in 1940 - 1941 at Besançon and later Vitel and subsequent life in Paris after their release due to ill-health, and five Red Cross enquiry forms, dated May – October 1944 (completed in French and English), concerning Mme de Boucheman and her family.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Fisher-Rowe, Laurence R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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