Description
Object description
Collection of 98 ms letters (total 281pp), June 1916 - December 1918, written home to his parents and sister during his service as a signaller with the 18th Battalion and from February 1918 the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (93rd Brigade, 31st Division) in France after September 1916, describing the effect of his vaccinations prior to embarkation, the novelty of first seeing an aeroplane, the state of his billets, trench conditions and the common problem of lice, his work repairing wire in No Mans Land, his award of the Military Medal, gas training received and his attendance on a course at the Divisional Signalling School (January 1917) and a period spent at the 1st Army Rest Camp (September 1917), ruined French towns, a practical joke played on a fellow soldier, and Christmas and New Year celebrations; together with his printed/ms end of term report (1p) from Bradford Grammar School, 16 December 1904, and a printed City of Bradford Recruiting Committee certificate (1p) presented to him in December 1915.
Content description
Collection of 98 ms letters (total 281pp), June 1916 - December 1918, written home to his parents and sister during his service as a signaller with the 18th Battalion and from February 1918 the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (93rd Brigade, 31st Division) in France after September 1916, describing the effect of his vaccinations prior to embarkation, the novelty of first seeing an aeroplane, the state of his billets, trench conditions and the common problem of lice, his work repairing wire in No Mans Land, his award of the Military Medal, gas training received and his attendance on a course at the Divisional Signalling School (January 1917) and a period spent at the 1st Army Rest Camp (September 1917), ruined French towns, a practical joke played on a fellow soldier, and Christmas and New Year celebrations; together with his printed/ms end of term report (1p) from Bradford Grammar School, 16 December 1904, and a printed City of Bradford Recruiting Committee certificate (1p) presented to him in December 1915.
History note
Cataloguer APR
History note
Catalogue date 2000-09-07