Description
Object description
A very well-written collection of 133 ms letters (3 with ts transcripts) and 27 postcards/photograph s from a former HM Inspector of Schools to his wife and family covering his training in this country with the 4th Reserve Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and on a signalling course (February - August 1916), his service as a platoon commander in the 2/4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (184th Brigade, 61st Division) on the Western Front, principally in the Laventie sector and then on the Somme, from September 1916 till his capture in February 1917, and his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany in hospital at Paderborn (April - October 1917) and in the officer camps at Karlsruhe (November 1917 - July 1918) and Stralsund (July - November 1918). The letters contain excellent descriptions of conditions on the Somme after the battle, the work of a wiring party (December 1916) and life out of the line as well as many finely observed character sketches of his fellow officers (who included the writer Alec Waugh at Karlsruhe) and the men of his platoon
Content description
A very well-written collection of 133 ms letters (3 with ts transcripts) and 27 postcards/photograph s from a former HM Inspector of Schools to his wife and family covering his training in this country with the 4th Reserve Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and on a signalling course (February - August 1916), his service as a platoon commander in the 2/4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (184th Brigade, 61st Division) on the Western Front, principally in the Laventie sector and then on the Somme, from September 1916 till his capture in February 1917, and his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany in hospital at Paderborn (April - October 1917) and in the officer camps at Karlsruhe (November 1917 - July 1918) and Stralsund (July - November 1918). The letters contain excellent descriptions of conditions on the Somme after the battle, the work of a wiring party (December 1916) and life out of the line as well as many finely observed character sketches of his fellow officers (who included the writer Alec Waugh at Karlsruhe) and the men of his platoon
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1988-07
