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Object description
3 ms letters (1968 - 1972) written to a friend, Captain J R T Pollard, giving his recollections of the Battle of Le Cateau (August 1914) during which he served as a subaltern in the 2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (13th Brigade, 5th Division) and was taken prisoner, giving brief details of the battalion's stand to allow other units to retire, the two VCs won by Lance Corporal F W Holmes and Major C A L Yate as well as mysterious details about Yate's disappearance and death as a prisoner, the initial treatment of his wounds by German doctors and Belgian civilians, his brutal treatment by German soldiers and civilians on his way to Torgau camp and a religious vision that comforted him, together with 2 ms letters (1974) from Captain J Noel also to Pollard commenting on these letters and including extracts from his own research which principally describe the destruction of the battlefields.
Content description
3 ms letters (1968 - 1972) written to a friend, Captain J R T Pollard, giving his recollections of the Battle of Le Cateau (August 1914) during which he served as a subaltern in the 2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (13th Brigade, 5th Division) and was taken prisoner, giving brief details of the battalion's stand to allow other units to retire, the two VCs won by Lance Corporal F W Holmes and Major C A L Yate as well as mysterious details about Yate's disappearance and death as a prisoner, the initial treatment of his wounds by German doctors and Belgian civilians, his brutal treatment by German soldiers and civilians on his way to Torgau camp and a religious vision that comforted him, together with 2 ms letters (1974) from Captain J Noel also to Pollard commenting on these letters and including extracts from his own research which principally describe the destruction of the battlefields.
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Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1990-10-23