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Object description
Wordprocessed edited transcript (63pp), written by him in journal form, of his letters home (no longer extant) during his service as a Church of England Chaplain to the Forces, describing his crossing to France on the ITALIAN PRINCE (August 1914), his initial employment on taking convoys of motor ambulances from Nantes to GHQ, BEF at Fere en Tardenois (September 1914) and his appointments as the Chaplain to No 1 Motor Ambulance Convoy based on St Omer and Poperinghe, including the evacuation of wounded from Ypres during the 1st Battle of Ypres (October 1914 - January 1915), as one of the Chaplains at the base camps at Le Havre and Harfleur (February - August 1915), as the Chaplain to the 3rd Guards Brigade (Guards Division) including service in the Battle of Loos (September - November 1915), as a Chaplain at GHQ, BEF at St Omer (November - December 1915) and as Senior Chaplain of the Guards Division on the Western Front, including their operations in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme (December 1915 - November 1916), with interesting references to memorable services which he held, his campaign for the provision of more motor ambulances for the BEF (September 1914), the establishment of a Soldiers' Club at St Omer (winter 1914), his organisation of a programme of concert parties at Le Havre, Field Marshal Sir John French's departure as Commander-in-Chief, BEF (December 1915), his establishment of a programme of cinema shows in Poperinghe (spring 1916), Talbot House at Poperinghe (30 March 1916), meetings with HRH The Prince of Wales and other prominent officers in the Guards Division, the death of the music hall star Basil Hallam in a balloon accident (August 1916), the burial of Raymond Asquith (16 September 1916) and a variety of examples of humour current in officer circles on the Western Front.
Content description
Wordprocessed edited transcript (63pp), written by him in journal form, of his letters home (no longer extant) during his service as a Church of England Chaplain to the Forces, describing his crossing to France on the ITALIAN PRINCE (August 1914), his initial employment on taking convoys of motor ambulances from Nantes to GHQ, BEF at Fere en Tardenois (September 1914) and his appointments as the Chaplain to No 1 Motor Ambulance Convoy based on St Omer and Poperinghe, including the evacuation of wounded from Ypres during the 1st Battle of Ypres (October 1914 - January 1915), as one of the Chaplains at the base camps at Le Havre and Harfleur (February - August 1915), as the Chaplain to the 3rd Guards Brigade (Guards Division) including service in the Battle of Loos (September - November 1915), as a Chaplain at GHQ, BEF at St Omer (November - December 1915) and as Senior Chaplain of the Guards Division on the Western Front, including their operations in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme (December 1915 - November 1916), with interesting references to memorable services which he held, his campaign for the provision of more motor ambulances for the BEF (September 1914), the establishment of a Soldiers' Club at St Omer (winter 1914), his organisation of a programme of concert parties at Le Havre, Field Marshal Sir John French's departure as Commander-in-Chief, BEF (December 1915), his establishment of a programme of cinema shows in Poperinghe (spring 1916), Talbot House at Poperinghe (30 March 1916), meetings with HRH The Prince of Wales and other prominent officers in the Guards Division, the death of the music hall star Basil Hallam in a balloon accident (August 1916), the burial of Raymond Asquith (16 September 1916) and a variety of examples of humour current in officer circles on the Western Front.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2003-02