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Object description
277 ms letters, cards and telegrams (many undated) sent to his wife while he was serving: with the 2/7th Battalion Manchester Regiment in Stockport, Lancashire (April – May 1915), Crowborough, Sussex (May 1915 - ?April 1916) and Colchester, Essex (?April – July 1916); in France and on the Western Front attached to the 1/7th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment (165th Infantry Brigade, 55th Division) July – August 1916, then to the 19th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment (89th Brigade, 30th Division, transferred October 1916) August – November 1916; with the 3rd Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment in Ireland, March – April 1918; as well as after hospitalisation in England (with an unspecified complaint) at Knowsley Park Camp Prescot, Lancashire, September 1917 - ?January 1918, at a military hospital in Liverpool, ?January – March 1918 and at the discharge centre for the 3rd Battalion in Ripon, Yorkshire, April 1918, then as an Army Reserve Munitions Worker in Middlesbrough, ?April – July 1918, prior to his transfer to his home town, with much detail about his life as an ordinary soldier and officer's servant, including details of his living conditions, his first impressions of France and his first experience of being in front line trenches as well as many references to his young family, his attempts to visit home and punishment for being absent without leave, his financial worries, his reluctance to serve overseas, his attempts to avoid being regraded medically after being hospitalised, civil unrest in Ireland (1918) and his eventual success in securing his release to work in munitions with descriptions of working conditions in Middlesbrough and the effect of the influenza epidemic there; also correspondence from friends and relatives, mostly members of the Armed Forces, dated 1914 – 1918, 3 letters from him written 1939 – 1945 and other correspondence written during the Second World War, mainly by servicemen, including 30 letters and telegrams from his son Harold sent during training in England with 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (1940 – 1941) with a reference to captured German aircrew at Winchelsea (June 1941) and after he had been admitted to hospital in South Africa (July 1945 – 1946) together with photographs, postcards and various papers including documents relating to a pig club (1940s).
Content description
277 ms letters, cards and telegrams (many undated) sent to his wife while he was serving: with the 2/7th Battalion Manchester Regiment in Stockport, Lancashire (April – May 1915), Crowborough, Sussex (May 1915 - ?April 1916) and Colchester, Essex (?April – July 1916); in France and on the Western Front attached to the 1/7th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment (165th Infantry Brigade, 55th Division) July – August 1916, then to the 19th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment (89th Brigade, 30th Division, transferred October 1916) August – November 1916; with the 3rd Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment in Ireland, March – April 1918; as well as after hospitalisation in England (with an unspecified complaint) at Knowsley Park Camp Prescot, Lancashire, September 1917 - ?January 1918, at a military hospital in Liverpool, ?January – March 1918 and at the discharge centre for the 3rd Battalion in Ripon, Yorkshire, April 1918, then as an Army Reserve Munitions Worker in Middlesbrough, ?April – July 1918, prior to his transfer to his home town, with much detail about his life as an ordinary soldier and officer's servant, including details of his living conditions, his first impressions of France and his first experience of being in front line trenches as well as many references to his young family, his attempts to visit home and punishment for being absent without leave, his financial worries, his reluctance to serve overseas, his attempts to avoid being regraded medically after being hospitalised, civil unrest in Ireland (1918) and his eventual success in securing his release to work in munitions with descriptions of working conditions in Middlesbrough and the effect of the influenza epidemic there; also correspondence from friends and relatives, mostly members of the Armed Forces, dated 1914 – 1918, 3 letters from him written 1939 – 1945 and other correspondence written during the Second World War, mainly by servicemen, including 30 letters and telegrams from his son Harold sent during training in England with 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (1940 – 1941) with a reference to captured German aircrew at Winchelsea (June 1941) and after he had been admitted to hospital in South Africa (July 1945 – 1946) together with photographs, postcards and various papers including documents relating to a pig club (1940s).
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