Davis, Charles Herbert (Colonel)

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

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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...".