Private Papers of Lieutenant Colonel J F Tarrant TD : Personal Collection; Correspondence; Postcard; Camp Newspaper; Trench Literature and Soldiers' Journals 1915-1918.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarrant, J F, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

1915

Summary:

Description: Twenty-six letters and six field service postcards written by Tarrant to his wife, March 1915 to January 1916, while serving as 2nd-in-Command and temporary Commanding Officer of the 1/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (145th Brigade, 48th Division) in France. They display a tender but unsentimental concern for his family back home and contain useful observations on the Battalion's arrival at the front, his billets, conditions in the line, the shelling of their positions, the strain of trench warfare, the good reputation of the Territorial Force, the high morale of his men, casualties sustained (particularly amongst officers), publication of a Battalion journal, the presentation of a bath unit by the Gloucester Women's Suffrage Society (4 August), training in the use of gas helmets (25 August) and expressing criticisms of the civilian population in Great Britain, some of whose actions he believed were prolonging the war (1 August & 16 September). There are also 2 photographs and a watercolour caricature of him in uniform, 9 issues of the 5th GLOUCESTER GAZETTE (July 1915 to July 1918), pages from the CHELTENHAM CHRONICLE AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE GAZETTE (April 1925) recording the unveiling of the 5th Battalion's War Memorial, and a certificate marking his services to the Royal British Legion (1951).

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on November 21, 2018).

AMDigital Reference: Documents.7814.