Leaflet: Notes on Recent Signalling Experience at the Front.
Signed as the property of Capt Hanby Holmes, nd.
Details the great difficulty experienced at the Front in keeping telegraph lines intact due to enemy artillery fire.
Also the difficulty in visual signalling due to the flat ground.
From papers collected by Capt Eric Richard Hanby Holmes, 1913-1941.
Hanby Holmes served with the Artist’s Rifles and 6th Bn The Durham Light Infantry.
By the end of the war Hanby Holmes was attached to the Royal Engineers for Army Signal Service.
Papers were collected primarily while serving on the Salonika Front during World War One (1914-1918).