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Object description
6 volumes containing 449 ms letters and telegrams to his fiancee, later wife written while a journalist on the LONDON EVENING NEWS (May - July 1914) and, after his enlistment, while serving in the ranks of the 14th Battalion, London Regiment in England (September 1914 - August 1915), as a 2nd Lieutenant and temporary Lieutenant with the 2/9th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Scotland and East Anglia (September 1915 - ? December 1916), with the 1/9th Argylls, an entrenching battalion, on the Western Front (January - August 1917) and with the 1/6th Argylls (initially the pioneer battalion of the 5th Division, but from October 1918 as an infantry battalion in the 153rd Brigade, 51st Division) also on the Western Front (August - December 1917 and April 1918 - February 1919) and in Italy (December 1917 - April 1918), and covering news stories about suffragettes and Ulster (1914), his enlistment and early training, Army life and his attitude to Army service, Zeppelin raids on East Anglia, his first experiences of the Western Front, his disapproval of prostitution and drunkenness, civilian conditions in France and Italy, gas casualties and his experiences during the Battle of the Selle when he won the MC (October 1918); also a notebook with eulogies for friends killed in action (one of whom was the poet Leslie Coulson), diary notes and observations on miscellaneous topics.
Content description
6 volumes containing 449 ms letters and telegrams to his fiancee, later wife written while a journalist on the LONDON EVENING NEWS (May - July 1914) and, after his enlistment, while serving in the ranks of the 14th Battalion, London Regiment in England (September 1914 - August 1915), as a 2nd Lieutenant and temporary Lieutenant with the 2/9th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Scotland and East Anglia (September 1915 - ? December 1916), with the 1/9th Argylls, an entrenching battalion, on the Western Front (January - August 1917) and with the 1/6th Argylls (initially the pioneer battalion of the 5th Division, but from October 1918 as an infantry battalion in the 153rd Brigade, 51st Division) also on the Western Front (August - December 1917 and April 1918 - February 1919) and in Italy (December 1917 - April 1918), and covering news stories about suffragettes and Ulster (1914), his enlistment and early training, Army life and his attitude to Army service, Zeppelin raids on East Anglia, his first experiences of the Western Front, his disapproval of prostitution and drunkenness, civilian conditions in France and Italy, gas casualties and his experiences during the Battle of the Selle when he won the MC (October 1918); also a notebook with eulogies for friends killed in action (one of whom was the poet Leslie Coulson), diary notes and observations on miscellaneous topics.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2000-03