Fifteen pages removed from Capt Hugh de Lisle Penfold’s scrapbook, containing documents and other papers of the period 1914-1924.
Including his 2nd Lieutenant’s commission January 1914; a poem written in Mesopotamia October 1917; another war-time poem Spring 1918; letters and press cuttings chiefly related to Persia and Penfold’s refusal of a place at Staff College; dinner and theatre programmes and his Staff College entrance exam marks.
From a collection of papers of Capt Hugh de Lisle Penfold, 2nd 9th Gurkha Rifles 1914-1916.
Associated with World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918).