Description
Object description
Collection of 24 ms letters, with complete ts transcription (28pp), written to his wife and family in Kent at irregular intervals during his service as a private in the 1/1st Royal East Kent Yeomanry at Cape Helles, Gallipoli where they were employed as infantry and attached to the 42nd Division (October - November 1915), in Egypt where they were attached to the 3rd Dismounted Brigade and employed on garrison duties on the Suez Canal and then at Sollum following the Senussi uprising (February 1916 - January 1917) and, after their amalgamation into the 10th Battalion East Kent Regiment (230th Infantry Brigade, 74th Division) in Palestine (November 1917 - March 1918) and on the Western Front by which time he had become a junior NCO (August - November 1918), with interesting references to the low morale of many British troops at Gallipoli and the accuracy of the Turkish snipers, the debilitating effect in Egypt of the great heat, the abundance of flies, the unsuitable rations and the sickness and grumbling among the men, other factors which helped to sustain his morale and his Battalion's part in the 3rd Battle of Gaza; together with two letters to his sister about him (October 1918) and a laser copy photograph of him in uniform with his wife.
Content description
Collection of 24 ms letters, with complete ts transcription (28pp), written to his wife and family in Kent at irregular intervals during his service as a private in the 1/1st Royal East Kent Yeomanry at Cape Helles, Gallipoli where they were employed as infantry and attached to the 42nd Division (October - November 1915), in Egypt where they were attached to the 3rd Dismounted Brigade and employed on garrison duties on the Suez Canal and then at Sollum following the Senussi uprising (February 1916 - January 1917) and, after their amalgamation into the 10th Battalion East Kent Regiment (230th Infantry Brigade, 74th Division) in Palestine (November 1917 - March 1918) and on the Western Front by which time he had become a junior NCO (August - November 1918), with interesting references to the low morale of many British troops at Gallipoli and the accuracy of the Turkish snipers, the debilitating effect in Egypt of the great heat, the abundance of flies, the unsuitable rations and the sickness and grumbling among the men, other factors which helped to sustain his morale and his Battalion's part in the 3rd Battle of Gaza; together with two letters to his sister about him (October 1918) and a laser copy photograph of him in uniform with his wife.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2004-05