NAM.1989-08-13-6

Extracts of letters home from Gallipoli from F J Cathcart, 1916, They are mainly concerned with his arrest as a suspected Turkish spy; from Egypt, describing the camp near Alexandria; and from Mesopotamia, describing the rescue of some soldiers from a stranded boat, and artillery on the march. Cathcart was killed in action in Mesopotamia in 1916. There is also the text of a letter giving details of his death from Lt Col H R Peck.