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Description: | Ts transcriptions of 11 letters (17pp) written to his fiancé, who later becomes his wife, concerning his life in South Africa before the First World War and his service as a Private with the Army Service Corp in France and then Salonika, 16 November 1905 - 5 November 1916, recording his reaction to the outbreak of hostilities (August 1914), his enlistment and initial impressions of the trenches of the Western Front (December 1914 - December 1915), his duties as part of a supply train in charge of the divisional horses and mules as well as the time he later spent recovering from malaria at St David's Military Hospital in Malta (November 1916), together with ts transcriptions of his diaries (39pp) kept intermittently between August 1914 and May 1919, reiterating the experiences he relates in this letters, also noting his movements during the last years of the war in Salonika, his demobilisation and the journey back to England where he arrived on 23 May 1919, also accompanied by a short ts transcribed memoir (13pp), written before the 1960's, primarily focusing on his recollections of South Africa before the war, illustrated throughout with a number of photographs of him in uniform and various family members as well as a few scanned images of the original letters and diaries.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2008-02-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Seary, G L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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