Description
Object description
23 ms letters (52pp), February 1909 - October 1914, written as a reservist called back to serve with the 6th (Reserve) Battalion Royal Fusiliers mainly at the Royal Military School near Dover, containing useful descriptions of his living conditions but mainly concerning his family's low income and the financial difficulties of separation from his wife, his dissatisfaction with routine duties and desire to be drafted to France, and then his active service in France as a lance corporal with the 4th Battalion (9th Brigade, 3rd Division) from September 1914 when he went straight into hospital with tonsillitis before returning to the front where he was soon killed in action, together with a cyclostyled message of condolence from Kitchener, an Infantry Record Office letter declaring him to be dead after a period of missing in action (1p, AF B104-82A, 4 March 1916), a War Office memorandum (2pp, Effects Form 46A, 9 March 1916) accompanying his Certificate of Death, 3 ts letters (3pp, March 1916 - December 1926) concerning his wife's appeal for a war widow's pension, a form (1p, 5 July 1922) to accompany the posthumous award of his British War and Victory Medals, and a collection of documents (15pp) relating to his pre-war service with the 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, November 1901 - November 1909, including certificates for his Transfer to the Army Reserve (AF B2506, 29 September 1909), details of his service career (AF D426, 27 November 1909), Qualification in Military Subjects for the Ranks of Corporal (AF C2111, 11 June 1903) and Sergeant (9 May 1904), a Third Class Certificate of Education (AF C310, 6 March 1903), a Second Class Certificate of Education (AF C309, 16 October 1903), Qualifications in Firing Drill and Commanding a Section (10 February 1903), a Certified Copy of his Birth Certificate, a paper pouch for Army Certificates (AF A14), a Royal Naval Division Christmas card for 1915, and 2 photographs.
Content description
23 ms letters (52pp), February 1909 - October 1914, written as a reservist called back to serve with the 6th (Reserve) Battalion Royal Fusiliers mainly at the Royal Military School near Dover, containing useful descriptions of his living conditions but mainly concerning his family's low income and the financial difficulties of separation from his wife, his dissatisfaction with routine duties and desire to be drafted to France, and then his active service in France as a lance corporal with the 4th Battalion (9th Brigade, 3rd Division) from September 1914 when he went straight into hospital with tonsillitis before returning to the front where he was soon killed in action, together with a cyclostyled message of condolence from Kitchener, an Infantry Record Office letter declaring him to be dead after a period of missing in action (1p, AF B104-82A, 4 March 1916), a War Office memorandum (2pp, Effects Form 46A, 9 March 1916) accompanying his Certificate of Death, 3 ts letters (3pp, March 1916 - December 1926) concerning his wife's appeal for a war widow's pension, a form (1p, 5 July 1922) to accompany the posthumous award of his British War and Victory Medals, and a collection of documents (15pp) relating to his pre-war service with the 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, November 1901 - November 1909, including certificates for his Transfer to the Army Reserve (AF B2506, 29 September 1909), details of his service career (AF D426, 27 November 1909), Qualification in Military Subjects for the Ranks of Corporal (AF C2111, 11 June 1903) and Sergeant (9 May 1904), a Third Class Certificate of Education (AF C310, 6 March 1903), a Second Class Certificate of Education (AF C309, 16 October 1903), Qualifications in Firing Drill and Commanding a Section (10 February 1903), a Certified Copy of his Birth Certificate, a paper pouch for Army Certificates (AF A14), a Royal Naval Division Christmas card for 1915, and 2 photographs.
History note
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History note
Catalogue date 1996-12-27