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- 1913-1927 (Creation)
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Photocopies of 140 ms and ts letters concerning his military service, 1913 - 1927, including 6 letetrs he wrote to his mother while serving in the Northern Nigeria Regiment during the British advance into the German Cameroons and his spell in hospital after being wounded during the capture of Tepe, August - November 1914; 22 letters home while serving as a pilot with No. 4 Squadron, RFC, April - July 1915, and with No. 12 Squadron, RFC, September 1915, in France; 22 letters, January - May 1916, whilst travelling to join the 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (9th Brigade, 3rd Lahore Division) in Mesopotamia and briefly with his regiment before being wounded in the attack on the Beiteiysa Redoubt, April 1916; 5 letters while on leave in Scotland, September - October 1916, and 8 from Senior Officer's School, January - March 1917; 56 letters from the Western Front, April - November 1917, while serving with the 17th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (32nd Division) April 1917, then as 2nd in command 2nd Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (96th Brigade, 32nd Division) May, and July - August 1917; as OC 1st Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment (95th Brigade, 32nd Division), June 1917, and in hospital in France, August - November 1917 after being gassed; 8 letters while serving as 2nd in command 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry with the Army of the Rhine, June - December 1919; together with service papers, and letters concerning promotions and pensions.
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{{data source}} The National Archives Discovery
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- Latin