Description
Object description
105 ms and ts letters and cards to his family (with transcript) written between August 1914 and May 1919 and covering his enlistment in the 3rd Battalion Devonshire Regiment as a 16 year old, his subsequent service on defence duties in southern England, September 1914 - March 1915, and on attachment to the 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (84th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division) in the Ypres Sector on the Western Front from March 1915 until his capture on 8 May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres, and his imprisonment in prisoner of war camps at Halle, Burg bei Magdeburg, Furstenberg (Mecklenburg), Fort Zorndorf at Custrin and Schweidnitz near Breslau, May 1915 - August 1918, when he was released to Holland prior to his return to the United Kingdom in November 1918; with useful details of the lifestyle of a young officer, vivid descriptions of his experiences in the trenches near Zonnebeke and interesting references to his experiences as a prisoner of war; also correspondence and other papers relating to his fate after the Second Battle of Ypres and coded messages to and from him mentioning the secret transmission to him in camp of maps and a compass to aid his escape attempts.
Content description
105 ms and ts letters and cards to his family (with transcript) written between August 1914 and May 1919 and covering his enlistment in the 3rd Battalion Devonshire Regiment as a 16 year old, his subsequent service on defence duties in southern England, September 1914 - March 1915, and on attachment to the 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (84th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division) in the Ypres Sector on the Western Front from March 1915 until his capture on 8 May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres, and his imprisonment in prisoner of war camps at Halle, Burg bei Magdeburg, Furstenberg (Mecklenburg), Fort Zorndorf at Custrin and Schweidnitz near Breslau, May 1915 - August 1918, when he was released to Holland prior to his return to the United Kingdom in November 1918; with useful details of the lifestyle of a young officer, vivid descriptions of his experiences in the trenches near Zonnebeke and interesting references to his experiences as a prisoner of war; also correspondence and other papers relating to his fate after the Second Battle of Ypres and coded messages to and from him mentioning the secret transmission to him in camp of maps and a compass to aid his escape attempts.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2000-05