Description
Object description
Circa 300 ms letters written during his service as adjutant, second in command and acting commanding officer of the 2/39th Garhwal Rifles (20th Indian Infantry Brigade, 7th Division) in India (August – September 1914, March 1916 – March 1917), on the Western Front (October 1914 – May 1915), in Egypt (January – March 1916) and Mesopotamia (March 1917 – April 1918), with the 3/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in England (1915), as instructor at an infantry officers' school near Baghdad (April – August 1918) and as Brigade Major of the 34th Brigade in Mesopotamia (August 1918 – March 1919) containing useful references to the outbreak of war, conditions in the trenches, the Prince of Wales, life in India and in Mesopotamia and the Armistice, and excellent descriptions of the Christmas Truce (1914), the Battles of Neuve Chapelle (1915), Ramadi (1917) and Sharqat (1918), and the sinking of the PERSIA (1915), also his diaries for 1914,1916 and 1917, official orders, signals and other papers and photographs, 128 ms letters from his brother Captain R C P Berryman covering his service (1914 – 1918) as a doctor, principally with the Indian Medical Service in India (August – December 1914, 1916), England (1915) and Egypt (1916), in hospitals in Marseilles (May – June 1918) and Palestine (July – November 1918) and with the XX Deccan Horse on the Western Front (? October 1916 – December 1917); an ms letter from Captain P F P Berryman who served in HMS MALAYA with an excellent description of the Battle of Jutland (1916); papers relating to J St J Berryman and his First World War service with the Middlesex Regiment, including references to his rescue after the TYNDAREUS hit a mine (1917); and papers relating to other members of the family including letters, a 1914 passport and a near complete transcript of the whole collection.
Content description
Circa 300 ms letters written during his service as adjutant, second in command and acting commanding officer of the 2/39th Garhwal Rifles (20th Indian Infantry Brigade, 7th Division) in India (August – September 1914, March 1916 – March 1917), on the Western Front (October 1914 – May 1915), in Egypt (January – March 1916) and Mesopotamia (March 1917 – April 1918), with the 3/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in England (1915), as instructor at an infantry officers' school near Baghdad (April – August 1918) and as Brigade Major of the 34th Brigade in Mesopotamia (August 1918 – March 1919) containing useful references to the outbreak of war, conditions in the trenches, the Prince of Wales, life in India and in Mesopotamia and the Armistice, and excellent descriptions of the Christmas Truce (1914), the Battles of Neuve Chapelle (1915), Ramadi (1917) and Sharqat (1918), and the sinking of the PERSIA (1915), also his diaries for 1914,1916 and 1917, official orders, signals and other papers and photographs, 128 ms letters from his brother Captain R C P Berryman covering his service (1914 – 1918) as a doctor, principally with the Indian Medical Service in India (August – December 1914, 1916), England (1915) and Egypt (1916), in hospitals in Marseilles (May – June 1918) and Palestine (July – November 1918) and with the XX Deccan Horse on the Western Front (? October 1916 – December 1917); an ms letter from Captain P F P Berryman who served in HMS MALAYA with an excellent description of the Battle of Jutland (1916); papers relating to J St J Berryman and his First World War service with the Middlesex Regiment, including references to his rescue after the TYNDAREUS hit a mine (1917); and papers relating to other members of the family including letters, a 1914 passport and a near complete transcript of the whole collection.
History note
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