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Object description
31 letters and telegrams (62pp) sent by an Officer in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment but attached to 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment, to his mother in London (July 1944 – April 1945) and covering his journey to France (July 1944), travelling through Holland (September 1944), with his views stating that he was browned off by the war, seeing 'lousy' German prisoners of war, optimism over the course of the war, seeing wanton destruction by the Germans, scrounging to supplement tinned rations, his sorrow that family are worried by 'buzz bombs' (V1), a journey to Paris (September 1944), passing First World War battlefields, seeing cropped haired women collaborators, dead cattle, going to the cinema, being impressed with Russian advances on the Eastern Front, seeing the launching of V2 Rockets, the good reception from the liberated town of Helmond, writing from a slit trench, his batman being killed in action, attending a course about German mines (November 1944), being shot in the shoulder (March 1945), and writing from Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester, saying that he was suffering from nerve damage in his arm. Together with a ts transcription of the letters (13pp) including footnotes and explanations by his daughter, and a copy of the citation (1p) for his award of the Military Cross during the battle for Kervenheim (1 March 1945) during which he was wounded.
Content description
31 letters and telegrams (62pp) sent by an Officer in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment but attached to 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment, to his mother in London (July 1944 – April 1945) and covering his journey to France (July 1944), travelling through Holland (September 1944), with his views stating that he was browned off by the war, seeing 'lousy' German prisoners of war, optimism over the course of the war, seeing wanton destruction by the Germans, scrounging to supplement tinned rations, his sorrow that family are worried by 'buzz bombs' (V1), a journey to Paris (September 1944), passing First World War battlefields, seeing cropped haired women collaborators, dead cattle, going to the cinema, being impressed with Russian advances on the Eastern Front, seeing the launching of V2 Rockets, the good reception from the liberated town of Helmond, writing from a slit trench, his batman being killed in action, attending a course about German mines (November 1944), being shot in the shoulder (March 1945), and writing from Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester, saying that he was suffering from nerve damage in his arm. Together with a ts transcription of the letters (13pp) including footnotes and explanations by his daughter, and a copy of the citation (1p) for his award of the Military Cross during the battle for Kervenheim (1 March 1945) during which he was wounded.
History note
Cataloguer SJO