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Description: | 54 ms letters (142pp), 3 November 1914 - 25 March 1917, written to his family whilst serving as an NCO with the 6th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (53rd Brigade, 18th Division) in the United Kingdom (November 1914 - July 1915) and on the Western Front (August 1915 - December 1916) and then the 3rd Battalion in Ireland and the UK (January - March 1917), describing his training at Colchester, embarking from Folkestone to go to the frontline near Albert (August 1915), the appalling conditions endured by those in the trenches, digging out comrades buried by the detonation of Germans mines under British trenches, carrying out trench maintenance and moving ammunition supplies up to the frontline, the high number of men admitted to hospital with frostbite, rheumatism and injuries sustained from being forced to move above ground because flooded trenches were impassable, undertaking a course at the Brigade Bombing School (April 1916), being hospitalised with wounds (possibly after the Battle of the Somme in July 1916) and travelling to Portsmouth to await a medical board (January 1917); together with 9 Field Service Postcards, two photographs of him and his comrades in uniform and one photograph showing his healed back wound.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007-12-21 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Dove, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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