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Description: | Photocopy of ts transcript (111pp) of letters home written May 1915 - March 1916 whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion Black Watch (Bareilly Brigade, Meerut Division, later renumbered as 21st Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division) joining them at Béthune in May 1915 as a subaltern before being appointed Transport Officer around the time of the Battle of Loos (September 1915) and reverting back to his company as a result of the casualties sustained there, in November the Battalion were detailed for service in Mesopotamia arriving in Basra in January 1916 and going immediately into action at Sheikh Sa'ad on 7 January which he again observed whilst acting as Transport Officer, he went back to his Company for the Action of the Wadi before Kut (13 January), describing the treatment of the wounded after both battles, and finally the First Attempt to Relieve Kut on 21 January in which he himself was wounded and evacuated to hospital first in Basra and subsequently in Bombay.
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Catalogue date 1988-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 7th Indian Division British Army Black Watch Indian Army 21st Indian Brigade 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Thorburn, M M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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