Description
Object description
Photocopy (105pp) of two exercise books containing an ms transcription of letters written home during his service as a Private with the 1/15th Battalion London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) (140th Brigade, 47th Division) on the Western Front, October 1915 - September 1916, describing his initial impressions of France while requesting items of food and equipment to be posted to him from home, conditions in the trenches, food and rations, his duties and the monotony of trench life, war rumours, the intense German shelling (February 1916), and a period attached to 176 Tunnelling Company RE (April 1916); the transcription includes background notes made by Jones's parents following his death in action on 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, an account of their pilgrimage to the battlefields in 1920, and newspaper cuttings and maps relating to the war service of the 1/15th Civil Service Rifles. Also held with the letters are a colour photograph showing a portrait of Jones, and a photocopied ts transcription (3pp) of Jones's last letter home (10 September 1916) and the letter from his officer regarding his death (17 October 1916).
Content description
Photocopy (105pp) of two exercise books containing an ms transcription of letters written home during his service as a Private with the 1/15th Battalion London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) (140th Brigade, 47th Division) on the Western Front, October 1915 - September 1916, describing his initial impressions of France while requesting items of food and equipment to be posted to him from home, conditions in the trenches, food and rations, his duties and the monotony of trench life, war rumours, the intense German shelling (February 1916), and a period attached to 176 Tunnelling Company RE (April 1916); the transcription includes background notes made by Jones's parents following his death in action on 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, an account of their pilgrimage to the battlefields in 1920, and newspaper cuttings and maps relating to the war service of the 1/15th Civil Service Rifles. Also held with the letters are a colour photograph showing a portrait of Jones, and a photocopied ts transcription (3pp) of Jones's last letter home (10 September 1916) and the letter from his officer regarding his death (17 October 1916).
History note
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History note
Catalogue date 2005-02-05
