Description
Object description
His ms papers (60pp) kept while serving as a Captain in command of the Lucknow Machine Gun Squadron (8th Lucknow Cavalry Brigade, 1st Indian Cavalry Division) on the Somme Sector of the Western Front, October - November 1916, including: his ms notes outlining targets and the bearings for his machine guns (27pp), October 1916, and his ms reports to the Staff Captain, Lucknow Cavalry Brigade, and ms orders issued to his unit (33pp), November 1916, concerning the support given by his unit's machine guns to the 93rd Infantry Brigade (31st Division), the 2nd, 32nd and 7th Divisions and his subsequent successful attempts to have his unit withdrawn for a rest out of the line. Also included are his two letters (14pp), May - June 1915, written to his mother, describing his visit to see the grave of his brother at Meteren, beautifully kept by the local population, and enclosing a sketch of the location of the grave; the ms poem "Some Day" (3pp) copied from THE GUARDIAN, December 1916; a postcard (2pp) of Ypres, April [?1918]; a ts Order of Service (9pp) for the Cessation of Hostilities, Holy Trinity Church, Karachi, 17 November 1918.
Content description
His ms papers (60pp) kept while serving as a Captain in command of the Lucknow Machine Gun Squadron (8th Lucknow Cavalry Brigade, 1st Indian Cavalry Division) on the Somme Sector of the Western Front, October - November 1916, including: his ms notes outlining targets and the bearings for his machine guns (27pp), October 1916, and his ms reports to the Staff Captain, Lucknow Cavalry Brigade, and ms orders issued to his unit (33pp), November 1916, concerning the support given by his unit's machine guns to the 93rd Infantry Brigade (31st Division), the 2nd, 32nd and 7th Divisions and his subsequent successful attempts to have his unit withdrawn for a rest out of the line. Also included are his two letters (14pp), May - June 1915, written to his mother, describing his visit to see the grave of his brother at Meteren, beautifully kept by the local population, and enclosing a sketch of the location of the grave; the ms poem "Some Day" (3pp) copied from THE GUARDIAN, December 1916; a postcard (2pp) of Ypres, April [?1918]; a ts Order of Service (9pp) for the Cessation of Hostilities, Holy Trinity Church, Karachi, 17 November 1918.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1992-10-02