Description
Object description
15 interesting and informative ms letters, 8 of them photocopies, to his girlfriend and mother relating to his mobilisation and service as an NCO in the 28th Battalion London Regiment under training near London, August-October 1914, and his subsequent service as a subaltern in the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders (20th Brigade, 7th Division) on the Western Front, December 1914 - March 1915, including very graphic accounts of conditions in the trenches and his Battalion's participation in the Christmas Truce and references to the severe wounds which he sustained in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, together with a ms letter from a family friend describing his treatment at Lady Hadfield's Anglo-American Hospital in Wimereux and photocopies of an article and presscutting concerning the surgical treatment of his jaw wound and a ts autobiographical note on his life and military service. Chater's early letters give an educated man's reaction to Britain's entry into the war and the possibility of active service.
Content description
15 interesting and informative ms letters, 8 of them photocopies, to his girlfriend and mother relating to his mobilisation and service as an NCO in the 28th Battalion London Regiment under training near London, August-October 1914, and his subsequent service as a subaltern in the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders (20th Brigade, 7th Division) on the Western Front, December 1914 - March 1915, including very graphic accounts of conditions in the trenches and his Battalion's participation in the Christmas Truce and references to the severe wounds which he sustained in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, together with a ms letter from a family friend describing his treatment at Lady Hadfield's Anglo-American Hospital in Wimereux and photocopies of an article and presscutting concerning the surgical treatment of his jaw wound and a ts autobiographical note on his life and military service. Chater's early letters give an educated man's reaction to Britain's entry into the war and the possibility of active service.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1982-04-08
