Description
Object description
Circa 115 ms letters (many incomplete and/or undated) written by an architectural student to his family during his service as a subaltern with the Lancashire Fusiliers (principally 12th Battalion, 65th Brigade, 22nd Division) in England, 1915 - January 1916, Egypt, February - March 1916, on the Salonika front, April 1916 - October 1917, and while in hospital and convalescent in Malta, July - August 1916, containing long passages about comparative religions, his opinions of the press and the British government , his forthright views on women's employment and suffrage, conscription and conscientious objection, the class structure of the Army and morale in the British Salonika Force as well as disparaging remarks about Welshmen, Jews and Australians, descriptions of the 29th General Hospital and the 4th Canadian General Hospital in Salonika (June - July 1916) and Intarfa Hospital, Malta (July - August 1916) where he was treated for dysentery and malaria, and some details of his duties in charge of a control post (April 1916), as quartermaster and mess president (circa October 1916 - March 1917) and as a company commander (summer 1917) prior to his death in action in October 1917; also a 1916 diary with brief notes on his daily activities, miscellaneous papers including a letter of condolence, the November 1917 issue of the ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL containing his obituary, and family photographs.
Content description
Circa 115 ms letters (many incomplete and/or undated) written by an architectural student to his family during his service as a subaltern with the Lancashire Fusiliers (principally 12th Battalion, 65th Brigade, 22nd Division) in England, 1915 - January 1916, Egypt, February - March 1916, on the Salonika front, April 1916 - October 1917, and while in hospital and convalescent in Malta, July - August 1916, containing long passages about comparative religions, his opinions of the press and the British government , his forthright views on women's employment and suffrage, conscription and conscientious objection, the class structure of the Army and morale in the British Salonika Force as well as disparaging remarks about Welshmen, Jews and Australians, descriptions of the 29th General Hospital and the 4th Canadian General Hospital in Salonika (June - July 1916) and Intarfa Hospital, Malta (July - August 1916) where he was treated for dysentery and malaria, and some details of his duties in charge of a control post (April 1916), as quartermaster and mess president (circa October 1916 - March 1917) and as a company commander (summer 1917) prior to his death in action in October 1917; also a 1916 diary with brief notes on his daily activities, miscellaneous papers including a letter of condolence, the November 1917 issue of the ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL containing his obituary, and family photographs.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1998-10
