Back to Album belonging to Colonel F F Colvin containing photos and paper ephemera relating to 9L and 7th Reserve Cavalry Regiment during 1WW
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Item 0014
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| Accession number | 912L : 2124/4 |
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280415-5 CAMPAGNE DE TO DERNIER BOMBARDEMENT DYPRES LAST ROMBARDMENT OF YPRES YPRES . Les Maisons des Corporations au marché au bétail . The Corporations Houses to the Cattle market . K233 E DE 1914 19 YPRES. Cathedrale Saint Martin ale bombardement . The Cathedral Saint - Martin after the bombardment . instwerror sitten andra om op Sinte Mater YPRES . Peinture Murale ( Halles ) . OORLOG 1914-1915 Ruinen te Poperinghe Ruines de Poperinghe Ruins of Poperinghe Edition CALLEW Uitgever : Sansen - Vanneste , Poperinghe Huis Mme Notredame , Veurnestraat Ruines Rue de Furnes SCHOR ANKE Reproduction 51013-1 YPRES.- La Porte N The Neptun Gate LIEUTENANT H. DURANT , 9th Lance in action is reported from France , re mission from the ranks of his regin England as squadron sergeant - majori commanded by the late Captain F. O and was badly wounded in the famou 9th Lancers in the early days of th ceived the Médaille Militaire , the December , 1914 , à commission in his tenant Durant , who was one of the bes in the Army , was greatly respected : as a most gallant and capable officer . the trenches is the end of a very rem which would undoubtedly have led 1 promotion if he had lived . it now . But we did our job & were place - We stayed there for three days & two nights I had a hot time The lights we saw were too awful for words , I hate to think about glad to come away - We were Y Lailway iron bedstead , brg chest of drawers , plates , Knives & a with fine wall paper & frierge , pictures on Walls , tables , chavis steets painted with gold paint - it was a sumptuous . 2007 made Porter found a glorious dug out for us ; it openersed off a below the ground ( all chalk ) , it had a board floor , board walls covered bresich beturen the German , et line & Support line was about 10 feet HOMON communicatie ALAGN HOME front line trench was about 1000 to 1500 yards further on . M We had taken the Hun first line besch Support livie & our present all round us . We Eventually got to where our part of the trench was . -ments shot to peices , & corpuses . it was a Walk ! Shells all over us & the dark & Carried tons of stuff 3 miles up a wad & then had & mile dead . We went up in motor brisses to within 4 miles , then walked in across fields a maze of trenches & shill holes & Sarbed wire entangle last Saturday myself and two other officers went up to one of our most recent battlefields Oct 2 " ( my 30th birthday ) with a party of men to remake the German support line of Frenches gather together equipment & Eury Reproduction Interdite 110514-3 YPRES . La Chapelle du Saint - Sacrement à la Cathédrate Saint - Mart Chapel of the Holy Sacrament in the Cathedral St - Martin Y CAMPAGNE DE 1914-1915 thall all be made into Infantry , but no one knowr . Porter ( Capt mark Porta ) of a gap with us remains to be seen . Wild rumours My aroun's that we M.C. c2 The French have done well in places & so have we , but no sign 20 of any chance for Cavalry + 20 what they will do оля 915 T. Jenkinson attached to 9th Lancers - Copy of Letter to F.F.C. from 31214-59 YPRES . La Chapelle du Saint - Sacrement à la Cathédrale Saint - Martin après le bombardement . Chapel of the Holy Sacramant in the Cathedral Saint - Martin after the bombardment . TELEPHONE TELEGRAMS PARTRIDGE GREEN 11 . HORSHAM . SHERMANBURY GRANGE . STATION , PARTRIDGE GREEN . ,, |
