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Object description
290 interesting ms letters written during his service in the 6th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (38th Brigade, 13th Division), July 1915 - December 1918, describing his journey to and service at Gallipoli (July - December 1915) where he served at Helles, Sari Bair and Suvla until the evacuation, rest on Lemnos, service in Egypt (January - April 1916) mainly at Port Said and including a spell in hospital there, rejoining the battalion in Mesopotamia (April 1916) at Shaikh Saad until July when he was sent to the 40th Field Ambulance and hospital in Amara, returning to the line before being wounded at Kala Haji Fahan (January 1917) and sent first to No 23 British General Hospital in Amara and then to hospital in India in Bombay (February) and Nasik (March) followed by convalescence at Agra and Simla (March - April), returning to Mesopotamia again in June and journeying from Basra to Baghdad along the Tigris to rejoin the battalion again (July 1917 - April 1918), leave in India in Bombay and Calcutta (May - July) and return again (August - November) via Kut with a brief stay in No 3 British General Hospital in Basra, attendance on an officer's course at the Infantry School in Karradah near Baghdad (November - December) and a final period with the battalion before beginning his journey home (December 1918), giving good descriptions of the conditions of life in the Gallipoli and Mesopotamian theatres, the scenery of Mesopotamia and India, hospital conditions and casualties, and including brief references to Clement Attlee, a fellow officer, at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia
Content description
290 interesting ms letters written during his service in the 6th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (38th Brigade, 13th Division), July 1915 - December 1918, describing his journey to and service at Gallipoli (July - December 1915) where he served at Helles, Sari Bair and Suvla until the evacuation, rest on Lemnos, service in Egypt (January - April 1916) mainly at Port Said and including a spell in hospital there, rejoining the battalion in Mesopotamia (April 1916) at Shaikh Saad until July when he was sent to the 40th Field Ambulance and hospital in Amara, returning to the line before being wounded at Kala Haji Fahan (January 1917) and sent first to No 23 British General Hospital in Amara and then to hospital in India in Bombay (February) and Nasik (March) followed by convalescence at Agra and Simla (March - April), returning to Mesopotamia again in June and journeying from Basra to Baghdad along the Tigris to rejoin the battalion again (July 1917 - April 1918), leave in India in Bombay and Calcutta (May - July) and return again (August - November) via Kut with a brief stay in No 3 British General Hospital in Basra, attendance on an officer's course at the Infantry School in Karradah near Baghdad (November - December) and a final period with the battalion before beginning his journey home (December 1918), giving good descriptions of the conditions of life in the Gallipoli and Mesopotamian theatres, the scenery of Mesopotamia and India, hospital conditions and casualties, and including brief references to Clement Attlee, a fellow officer, at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia
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Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1991-05-01