Description
Object description
Thirteen ms letters to his family in London, August 1914 - February 1915, the first from the Public Schools OTC camp on Salisbury Plain (August 1914) and the remainder describing his training as a private in the 1/13th Battalion London Regiment in Hertfordshire (August - October 1914) and his service with the Battalion (25th Infantry Brigade, 8th Division) on the Western Front (November 1914 - February 1915), with very good accounts of the muddy conditions in the trenches and their participation in the Christmas Truce; together with his portrait photograph, three ms letters of condolence from fellow soldiers, an 'in memoriam' card, a press cutting relating to his death in action during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 aged nineteen, and correspondence from May 1915 - October 1972 between the family and the British Red Cross Society and the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission concerning the location and maintenance of his grave in Neuve Chapelle Farm Cemetery; and a 'pro-forma' letter, dated March 1918, from the Imperial War Museum Women's Work Sub-Committee to his aunt concerning her war work along with a press cutting (1926) concerning her career in the Home Office.
Content description
Thirteen ms letters to his family in London, August 1914 - February 1915, the first from the Public Schools OTC camp on Salisbury Plain (August 1914) and the remainder describing his training as a private in the 1/13th Battalion London Regiment in Hertfordshire (August - October 1914) and his service with the Battalion (25th Infantry Brigade, 8th Division) on the Western Front (November 1914 - February 1915), with very good accounts of the muddy conditions in the trenches and their participation in the Christmas Truce; together with his portrait photograph, three ms letters of condolence from fellow soldiers, an 'in memoriam' card, a press cutting relating to his death in action during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 aged nineteen, and correspondence from May 1915 - October 1972 between the family and the British Red Cross Society and the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission concerning the location and maintenance of his grave in Neuve Chapelle Farm Cemetery; and a 'pro-forma' letter, dated March 1918, from the Imperial War Museum Women's Work Sub-Committee to his aunt concerning her war work along with a press cutting (1926) concerning her career in the Home Office.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1990-06
