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Object description
11 ms letters and 1 postcard (with ts transcription, 22pp), September 1915 - February 1916, describing his service as a subaltern in the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers (87th Brigade, 29th Division) at Gallipoli and in Egypt, including references to his journey out to the Peninsula, life in the trenches at Cape Helles, visiting the grave of his brother, Captain James Dykes, killed in July while serving with the 1/5th Battalion KOSB (155th Brigade, 52nd Division), a detailed description of his evacuation on 8 January 1916, his arrival in Egypt and leave in Cairo. Together with: two letters received by him from a medical school friend serving in the 4th Battalion Special Brigade Royal Engineers (RE) (April 1916) mentioning a Zeppelin raid on Newcastle, and from another brother (April 1917) describing how his unnamed transport had been sunk near Malta; ms standing orders for the Gallipoli trenches; orders for a fatigue and the evacuation at Gallipoli and a working party on the Western Front; and a list of souvenirs bought in Cairo.
Content description
11 ms letters and 1 postcard (with ts transcription, 22pp), September 1915 - February 1916, describing his service as a subaltern in the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers (87th Brigade, 29th Division) at Gallipoli and in Egypt, including references to his journey out to the Peninsula, life in the trenches at Cape Helles, visiting the grave of his brother, Captain James Dykes, killed in July while serving with the 1/5th Battalion KOSB (155th Brigade, 52nd Division), a detailed description of his evacuation on 8 January 1916, his arrival in Egypt and leave in Cairo. Together with: two letters received by him from a medical school friend serving in the 4th Battalion Special Brigade Royal Engineers (RE) (April 1916) mentioning a Zeppelin raid on Newcastle, and from another brother (April 1917) describing how his unnamed transport had been sunk near Malta; ms standing orders for the Gallipoli trenches; orders for a fatigue and the evacuation at Gallipoli and a working party on the Western Front; and a list of souvenirs bought in Cairo.
History note
Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1995-03