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Object description
54 ms letters, January 1916 and March - December 1918, principally to his wife, in which he concentrates on his deep love for her, referring only briefly to being on active service but giving details of his medical progress in No 5 British Red Cross Hospital, Wimereux and Bathurst House, London after being wounded in April 1918 when Adjutant of the 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (74th Brigade, 25th Division) and No 8 British General Hospital, Rouen, after a second wound in November 1918 when serving as Adjutant of the 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (96th Brigade, 32nd Division), together with wedding telegrams (July 1918), letters of condolence after his younger brother's death (July 1918) as a POW in Germany, 8 ms letters from his elder brother, Captain A L Potts, written principally while attached to HQ 123rd Infantry Brigade (41st Division) in Italy (November 1917 - November 1918), miscellaneous correspondence from Army comrades and official forms (mainly 1918), various items relating to Lieutenant Colonel J N Marshall VC including 2 ms messages from him written shortly before his death in action during the attack on the Sambre-Oise canal near Catillon on 4 November 1918, cyclostyled Brigade Orders for the attack, a ts memoir (6pp) briefly recording Potts's experiences during the Somme in 1916 including the capture of Regina Trench, Third Ypres when he was awarded the MC and the fighting in 1918, a printed volume of standing orders for the 74th Infantry Brigade (1917), 3 maps and 2 ms notebooks.
Content description
54 ms letters, January 1916 and March - December 1918, principally to his wife, in which he concentrates on his deep love for her, referring only briefly to being on active service but giving details of his medical progress in No 5 British Red Cross Hospital, Wimereux and Bathurst House, London after being wounded in April 1918 when Adjutant of the 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (74th Brigade, 25th Division) and No 8 British General Hospital, Rouen, after a second wound in November 1918 when serving as Adjutant of the 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (96th Brigade, 32nd Division), together with wedding telegrams (July 1918), letters of condolence after his younger brother's death (July 1918) as a POW in Germany, 8 ms letters from his elder brother, Captain A L Potts, written principally while attached to HQ 123rd Infantry Brigade (41st Division) in Italy (November 1917 - November 1918), miscellaneous correspondence from Army comrades and official forms (mainly 1918), various items relating to Lieutenant Colonel J N Marshall VC including 2 ms messages from him written shortly before his death in action during the attack on the Sambre-Oise canal near Catillon on 4 November 1918, cyclostyled Brigade Orders for the attack, a ts memoir (6pp) briefly recording Potts's experiences during the Somme in 1916 including the capture of Regina Trench, Third Ypres when he was awarded the MC and the fighting in 1918, a printed volume of standing orders for the 74th Infantry Brigade (1917), 3 maps and 2 ms notebooks.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1995-05