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Object description
Edited ts transcript (105pp) of his lively and informative letters home to his parents in Huddersfield while serving as a platoon commander in the 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment (13th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division) from August 1914 till he was killed in April 1915 and covering the Battalion's mobilisation on the outbreak of war and crossing from Ireland to France (August 1914), his service on the Western Front during the retreat from Mons, the Battle of La Bassee (October 1914) and the 1st Battle of Ypres in which he was wounded, his time with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of his Regiment in Northumberland (January - February 1915) and at the 5th Division infantry base depot in Rouen (February 1915) and his service in and out of the trenches with the 2nd Battalion in the Ypres Salient (February - April 1915); together with one ms letter (6pp) from him to his brother written during the fighting on the Aisne in September 1914, a ms mobilisation order (1p) issued to him in May 1914 and photocopies of a 1914 recruiting poster based on a quotation from one of his letters and of presscuttings relating to his death in action at Hill 60 on 18 April 1915. His letters home include interesting references to his philosophy towards the war, morale and the likely duration of the war and conditions on the Western Front.
Content description
Edited ts transcript (105pp) of his lively and informative letters home to his parents in Huddersfield while serving as a platoon commander in the 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment (13th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division) from August 1914 till he was killed in April 1915 and covering the Battalion's mobilisation on the outbreak of war and crossing from Ireland to France (August 1914), his service on the Western Front during the retreat from Mons, the Battle of La Bassee (October 1914) and the 1st Battle of Ypres in which he was wounded, his time with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of his Regiment in Northumberland (January - February 1915) and at the 5th Division infantry base depot in Rouen (February 1915) and his service in and out of the trenches with the 2nd Battalion in the Ypres Salient (February - April 1915); together with one ms letter (6pp) from him to his brother written during the fighting on the Aisne in September 1914, a ms mobilisation order (1p) issued to him in May 1914 and photocopies of a 1914 recruiting poster based on a quotation from one of his letters and of presscuttings relating to his death in action at Hill 60 on 18 April 1915. His letters home include interesting references to his philosophy towards the war, morale and the likely duration of the war and conditions on the Western Front.
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