Description: Letters to his family and other papers (including a 1914 pocket diary) relating his military career during the First World War covering service: with the 3rd Battalion Cheshire Regiment in the United Kingdom, August - September 1914, including his reaction to Army life; service in France after he had been commissioned into the 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, principally while attached to the 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (18th Infantry Brigade, 6th Division); as a junior officer on the Western Front, October 1914 - February 1915, with useful illustrated descriptions of front line conditions, references to fraternization and a limited truce with the Germans over the Christmas period and to field punishment for drunkenness; service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards in the United Kingdom, March - August 1915; as a platoon commander and machine gun officer with the Battalion (3rd Guards Brigade, Guards Division)on the Western Front, August - October 1915 with references to the Battle of Loos and the Hohenzollern Redoubt; at the Guards Depot in England again after recovery from a wound, December 1915 - July 1916; with his Battalion again on the Western Front, July 1916 - January 1917 as company Lewis gun officer and second in command No 3 Company with good descriptions of the Battle of Ginchy, where he won the Military Cross and excellent illustrated references to the use of tanks during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, as well as graphic details of terrible conditions in the trenches before he was evacuated sick; with the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion Welsh Guards in the United Kingdom, April - August 1917.
Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from Imperial War Museums' archival catalogue. AMDigital Reference: Documents.18386a.
Original Version
Reproduction of: Private Papers of Major General W A F L Fox-Pitt [1] 1914-1917.
