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Object description
100 ms letters written to her by four potential suitors when a student at Girton College, Cambridge: 2nd Lieutenant J T Booth (7 letters, 22pp), a Canadian serving in the RFC, describing his training and social life at the Central Flying School, Wiltshire, July 1917 - December 1917; Lieutenant L J S Hill (128 letters, 184pp), 1/6th Battalion London Regiment, 140th Brigade, 47th Division, January 1915 - January 1917, particularly good in his descriptions of training in Sussex, his service on the Western Front, before falling ill (October 1916) and returning to England, and his subsequent employment training men for overseas service in Southern England, including details of conditions in the trenches, an incident of fraternisation with a German company in the opposite trenches in March 1916, attitudes to those at home, the monotony of the daily routine, and his growing disillusion with the war; Captain W Hine (29 letters, 90pp), an officer serving in the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) in Egypt and Palestine, September 1917 - February 1919, providing a lively and good-humoured correspondence; and Maurice Miles (4 letters, 10pp), an assistant surgeon on board the hospital ship, HMHS SICILIA, November 1914 - March 1915, describing the daily routine of the voyage via Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Bombay and returning through the Suez Canal; together with correspondence relating to John Gardner, whom she later married, concerning his application for a commission in the Essex Regiment and also his will, 2 ts letters from unidentified authors giving accounts of military service in France in April 1915 (3pp) and as an air raid warden in London, March 1941 (2pp), and 13 photographs.
Content description
100 ms letters written to her by four potential suitors when a student at Girton College, Cambridge: 2nd Lieutenant J T Booth (7 letters, 22pp), a Canadian serving in the RFC, describing his training and social life at the Central Flying School, Wiltshire, July 1917 - December 1917; Lieutenant L J S Hill (128 letters, 184pp), 1/6th Battalion London Regiment, 140th Brigade, 47th Division, January 1915 - January 1917, particularly good in his descriptions of training in Sussex, his service on the Western Front, before falling ill (October 1916) and returning to England, and his subsequent employment training men for overseas service in Southern England, including details of conditions in the trenches, an incident of fraternisation with a German company in the opposite trenches in March 1916, attitudes to those at home, the monotony of the daily routine, and his growing disillusion with the war; Captain W Hine (29 letters, 90pp), an officer serving in the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) in Egypt and Palestine, September 1917 - February 1919, providing a lively and good-humoured correspondence; and Maurice Miles (4 letters, 10pp), an assistant surgeon on board the hospital ship, HMHS SICILIA, November 1914 - March 1915, describing the daily routine of the voyage via Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Bombay and returning through the Suez Canal; together with correspondence relating to John Gardner, whom she later married, concerning his application for a commission in the Essex Regiment and also his will, 2 ts letters from unidentified authors giving accounts of military service in France in April 1915 (3pp) and as an air raid warden in London, March 1941 (2pp), and 13 photographs.
History note
Cataloguer PJG
History note
Catalogue date 1993-07-13