Private Papers of Captain A G Osborn

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Ts transcript (36pp) of 5 letters, October - November 1914, recording his experiences as a private during the formation and initial training of the 14th (1st Birmingham) Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (95th Brigade, 32nd Division) at Sutton Coldfield giving useful details of the battalion's organisation, work and evolution as a fighting unit as well as its character and morale, and 1 letter, January 1915, describing his brief hospitalisation in the 1st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston

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Catalogue date 1990-07-26

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Cataloguer NS

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Category: Private papers
Related period: First World War (content)
Creator: Osborn, A G
Dimensions: File: Weight 3.7 kg
Catalogue number: Documents.315

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