Letter, ‘47th Sikhs M.E.F. 7/1/17’, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 7 Jan 1917.
Letter from a collection written by 2/Lt Felix Tolcher Birdwood (1897-1987), November 1916 to 6 May 1917.
Associated with 47th Sikhs, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918).
Covers time out of the front line; risk of trenches being flooded. kusta (?)/kurta (thick khaki shirt worn by sepoys); hygiene; beating off an attack and occupying trenches opposite; heavy casualties from heavy shelling; Turkish withdrawal.