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Accession Number | RCDIG0001556 |
Collection number | 3DRL/3339 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 12 |
Object type | Letter |
Physical description | 17 Image/s captured |
Maker |
McLarty, Hector Roy Unknown |
Date made | 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Typescript copies of letters from Hector Roy McLarty, 18 May 1915 to 14 August 1915
Typewritten copies of extracts of letters relating to the First World War service of Hector Roy McLarty, 8th Field Artillery Brigade. The typewritten letters were written between 18 May 1915 and 14 August 1915. In these letters McLarty discusses the landing at Gallipoli, the conditions of life in the trenches, shelling, deaths of men from home, lack of bathing, and his brother Keith. Also included are translations of two letters found on a Turkish soldier at Gallipoli.
This file contains:
Typed copy of letter from Hector Roy McLarty, [Gallipoli], 4 May 1915;
Typed copy of letter from Hector Roy McLarty to "My dear Lad", [Gallipoli], 18 May 1915;
Typed copy of letter from Hector Roy McLarty to "My dear Lad", [Gallipoli], 18 May 1915 - 22 May 1915;
Typed copy of a translated letter from Falk to Hussein Aga, [1915];
Typed copy of a translated letter from Fatima to husband Hussein Aga, [1915];
Typed copy of letter from Hector Roy McLarty to his mother, and sisters Grace and Eileen, [Gallipoli], 30 June - 2 July 1915;
Typed copy of letter from Hector Roy McLarty to his mother, [Gallipoli], 7 July 1915;
Typed copy of letter from Hector Roy McLarty to his mother, [Gallipoli], 10 July 1915;
Typed copy of extract of letter from Hector Roy McLarty to his mother, [Gallipoli], 10 July 1915;
Typed copy of letter from Harry Lewis Paine to Mrs Welsman, Gallipoli, 15 July 1915;
Typed copy of letter from Hector Roy McLarty to May and Lil, [Gallipoli], 11 August 1915;
Typed copy of letter from Hector Roy McLarty to Longie, Eva and Jim, [Gallipoli], 14 August 1915.
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