| Place | Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Passchendaele |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | PR04464 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 1cm |
| Object type | Letter |
| Maker |
Davis, Charles Herbert |
| Place made | France |
| Date made | 1917 |
| Access | Open |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
| Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Davis, Charles Herbert (Colonel)
Description
Collection relating to the First World War service of Colonel Charles Herbert Davis, 38th Battalion. Collection consists of one original handwritten letter sent from France by Davis to his sister Phyl, dated 6 December 1917. The letter discusses mail and news from home; the Battalion's casualties; recent victories and battles at Ypres and Passchendaele; and the desolation of the surrounding landscape near Passchendaele. One line from the letter describing the desolation reads as "...If you can imagine miles of mud with few bare stumps of trees sticking out of it, littered with dead, English, German and Australian...".