Description
Object description
A collection of 70 ms letters (133pp, plus 91pp photocopied ts transcript), July 1915 - June 1917, written to her by Jock McLeod during training at Invergordon as an NCO with the 3rd Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, active service in the Ypres Salient with the 5th Battalion (26th Brigade, 9th Division), then a period of hospitalisation back in the United Kingdom at Gosforth, Belfast and Bolton, Lancashire, with a lung wound, February 1916 - February 1917, and brief service with the RFC at the Wireless Testing Park, Biggin Hill, providing useful descriptions of his training and anxiety to experience `real modern warfare', the dress and traditions of his regiment, poor trench conditions on the Western Front, his narrow escape from mortar explosions, his frustration at being hospitalised during the wait for examination by the Medical Board, who pronounced him unfit for active military service, his intense hatred for `the Hun' and the Germans' alleged fear of the Scottish based upon rumours of crucified Highlanders, criticisms of high prices charged by the YMCA in France, and his regiment's contempt for conscientious objectors, with his final letter informing her of his love for another girl; together with three ms letters from her (5pp), January 1914 - June 1917, including her draft reply to Jock's final letter, photocopies (179pp) of ms originals and ts transcripts of letters sent to her from various correspondents, July 1911 - December 1968, including material concerning her application and work for the Women's Legion and WAAC during the First World War, very brief diary entries and a chronology of her career; plus two photographs of her and Jock.
Content description
A collection of 70 ms letters (133pp, plus 91pp photocopied ts transcript), July 1915 - June 1917, written to her by Jock McLeod during training at Invergordon as an NCO with the 3rd Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, active service in the Ypres Salient with the 5th Battalion (26th Brigade, 9th Division), then a period of hospitalisation back in the United Kingdom at Gosforth, Belfast and Bolton, Lancashire, with a lung wound, February 1916 - February 1917, and brief service with the RFC at the Wireless Testing Park, Biggin Hill, providing useful descriptions of his training and anxiety to experience `real modern warfare', the dress and traditions of his regiment, poor trench conditions on the Western Front, his narrow escape from mortar explosions, his frustration at being hospitalised during the wait for examination by the Medical Board, who pronounced him unfit for active military service, his intense hatred for `the Hun' and the Germans' alleged fear of the Scottish based upon rumours of crucified Highlanders, criticisms of high prices charged by the YMCA in France, and his regiment's contempt for conscientious objectors, with his final letter informing her of his love for another girl; together with three ms letters from her (5pp), January 1914 - June 1917, including her draft reply to Jock's final letter, photocopies (179pp) of ms originals and ts transcripts of letters sent to her from various correspondents, July 1911 - December 1968, including material concerning her application and work for the Women's Legion and WAAC during the First World War, very brief diary entries and a chronology of her career; plus two photographs of her and Jock.
History note
Cataloguer APR
History note
Catalogue date 1996-11-08
