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Major D Allhusen - letters to his family January 1917 - January 1918 : Correspondence 1917-1918.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Summary:
- Description: Letters written by an Old Etonian, principally during his service as an officer, briefly in France (January 1917) then again, with 7th Battalion, KRRC (41st Infantry Brigade, 14th Division) on the Western Front (September - December 1917), with good references to the excellent German dugouts occupied by the unit, conditions in the front line at Passchendaele during the Third Battle of Ypres, the social background of officers and disparaging remarks about Army padres, prior to being admitted to No 5 British Red Cross Hospital at Wimereux in December 1917 after being seriously wounded.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource (viewed on December 19, 2018).
- Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from Imperial War Museums' archival catalogue.
- AMDigital Reference: Documents.16970a.
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