Description
Object description
6 ms and ts letters, five to his family and one to a fellow officer (three with transcripts) written during his service as OC 1/2nd West Lancashire Field Company RE (42nd Division) on the Cape Helles beachhead at Gallipoli (November 1915 - January 1916), with very good descriptions of conditions in the trenches, the fierce fighting during a local action in December and the preparations for and successful final evacuation of Cape Helles when the Field Company was temporarily attached to the 13th Division, and during their subsequent deployment with 42nd Division in Egypt (March - June 1916); together with 24 messages and signals exchanged between the Field Company and staff officers and other units in the 42nd Division (September - December 1915) and the 13th Division (January 1916), ms copies of his letters of condolence to the families of two NCOs in the Field Company (November 1915), Christmas cards for 1915 and 1916, souvenir menu for a dinner held in Egypt (March 1916) and ts speeches praising the Field Company's service at Gallipoli and in Egypt written by Dixon-Nuttall for delivery at their OCA reunions in 1966 and 1971.
Content description
6 ms and ts letters, five to his family and one to a fellow officer (three with transcripts) written during his service as OC 1/2nd West Lancashire Field Company RE (42nd Division) on the Cape Helles beachhead at Gallipoli (November 1915 - January 1916), with very good descriptions of conditions in the trenches, the fierce fighting during a local action in December and the preparations for and successful final evacuation of Cape Helles when the Field Company was temporarily attached to the 13th Division, and during their subsequent deployment with 42nd Division in Egypt (March - June 1916); together with 24 messages and signals exchanged between the Field Company and staff officers and other units in the 42nd Division (September - December 1915) and the 13th Division (January 1916), ms copies of his letters of condolence to the families of two NCOs in the Field Company (November 1915), Christmas cards for 1915 and 1916, souvenir menu for a dinner held in Egypt (March 1916) and ts speeches praising the Field Company's service at Gallipoli and in Egypt written by Dixon-Nuttall for delivery at their OCA reunions in 1966 and 1971.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1999-11