Description
Object description
5 ms letters and one ts transcript of a letter (the first censored by Lieutenant G H Woolley VC) to his family in NW London and a friend covering his service in the United Kingdom and on the Western Front as a rifleman in the 9th Battalion London Regiment (13th Brigade, 5th Division) from October 1914 - August 1915 and including good descriptions of trench conditions and the fighting for Hill 60 in the Ypres Salient in April 1915 and a few interesting comments on his reactions to active service; together with ts transcripts of three letters of condolence from fellow officers and men following his death in action on 26 October 1915, his next of kin memorial plaque, three photographs of his original grave (one taken in 1922 with his mother kneeling by it), the December 1915 issue of the magazine of the Gas Light and Coke Company in London for which he had worked before the war and that includes a letter written by him from France in October 1915 and letters from other employees on active service, a letter to his sister in May 1918 from a man in the Army Service Corps awaiting orders to proceed overseas from England and his membership card, dated July 1908, for the Communicant's Guild at the Church of St Laurence, Brondesbury in North London.
Content description
5 ms letters and one ts transcript of a letter (the first censored by Lieutenant G H Woolley VC) to his family in NW London and a friend covering his service in the United Kingdom and on the Western Front as a rifleman in the 9th Battalion London Regiment (13th Brigade, 5th Division) from October 1914 - August 1915 and including good descriptions of trench conditions and the fighting for Hill 60 in the Ypres Salient in April 1915 and a few interesting comments on his reactions to active service; together with ts transcripts of three letters of condolence from fellow officers and men following his death in action on 26 October 1915, his next of kin memorial plaque, three photographs of his original grave (one taken in 1922 with his mother kneeling by it), the December 1915 issue of the magazine of the Gas Light and Coke Company in London for which he had worked before the war and that includes a letter written by him from France in October 1915 and letters from other employees on active service, a letter to his sister in May 1918 from a man in the Army Service Corps awaiting orders to proceed overseas from England and his membership card, dated July 1908, for the Communicant's Guild at the Church of St Laurence, Brondesbury in North London.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1990-12