Description
Object description
4 ms letters (each 4pp) written to his wife immediately before his departure for France in September 1917 and while serving on the Western Front, initially with 137th Brigade Machine Gun Company (46th Division) and then with 29th Division Machine Gun Battalion, from April 1918 until he was killed in action the following month, describing conditions and stating his preference for the open fighting following the German spring offensive as opposed to trench warfare; together with related items including his commission, MGC Christmas cards, a War Office telegram announcing his death and a telegram of sympathy from Buckingham Palace, letters of condolence and correspondence concerning his grave location, his death certificate and will, a copy of THE TIMES containing the announcement of his death and an obituary from his firm's magazine, his commemorative scroll and photographs; together with an ms letter (16pp) written by his brother-in-law from a hospital in Cairo in May 1915, describing the landing from the RIVER CLYDE and engagements with the Turks until he was wounded two days later.
Content description
4 ms letters (each 4pp) written to his wife immediately before his departure for France in September 1917 and while serving on the Western Front, initially with 137th Brigade Machine Gun Company (46th Division) and then with 29th Division Machine Gun Battalion, from April 1918 until he was killed in action the following month, describing conditions and stating his preference for the open fighting following the German spring offensive as opposed to trench warfare; together with related items including his commission, MGC Christmas cards, a War Office telegram announcing his death and a telegram of sympathy from Buckingham Palace, letters of condolence and correspondence concerning his grave location, his death certificate and will, a copy of THE TIMES containing the announcement of his death and an obituary from his firm's magazine, his commemorative scroll and photographs; together with an ms letter (16pp) written by his brother-in-law from a hospital in Cairo in May 1915, describing the landing from the RIVER CLYDE and engagements with the Turks until he was wounded two days later.
History note
Cataloguer VAF
History note
Catalogue date 1979-11