Campbell, Alan McNeil (Corporal)

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Accession Number PR00301
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 item
Object type Letter
Maker Campbell, Alan McNeil
Date made 1916-1917
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM371 93/0509
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Lengthy letter (74pp) to his mother, describing in detail sea voyage to England via South Africa and Sierra Leone. Comments on leave and picquet duty in Durban, appreciation of Edith Campbell, submarine menace, shipboard life, convoy escorts, construction of RFC base, impressions of city of Lincoln.