Metadata : Private Papers of M Brown
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial War Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial War Museum
- Postal address:
- Lambeth RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomSE1 6HZ
- Email:
- Email: contact@iwm.org.uk
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial War Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial War Museum
- Postal address:
- Lambeth RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomSE1 6HZ
- Email:
- Email: contact@iwm.org.uk
- Reference number:
- Documents.24667
- Title:
- Private Papers of M Brown
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of M Brown
- Creator/accumulator:
- Brown, Morris
- Date(s):
- 1922/1945
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- 25 ms letters written by a soldier to his sister and brother-in-law, Tilly and Israel 'Issy' Feldman (later Fields) and their son, Wallace, as well as to his mother, Lena, and brother, Joe (October 1940, and June 1944 – February 1945), while serving in Signal Section, HQ Company, 14th Battalion King's Regiment (Liverpool), (formerly 50th Battalion), guarding internees in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, with details of spending Jewish Holy days with Jewish Families, a route march on the TT course, dances and cinema trips, family matters, telling them of his arrival in France with 'F' Troop, 429 Battery, 81st (Glamorgan Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (RA) (53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division), North West Europe (June 1944), hoping his mother was not too upset at his going abroad, with details of his duties, his optimism for the swift end of the war, thanking them for parcels they sent, descriptions of France and the welcome from the local people, especially the women, his first experience of front line fighting, his sister taking in an evacuee girl, dancing in cafés, being a signaller in a Forward Observation Post, details of his living and duties, how interesting he finds the job and the pleasure he derived in calling in artillery to targets he had spotted, the bombardments from the Germans, taking Germans prisoner, his brothers' new business venture as tailors, describing to his brother the weeks leading up to D-Day and his time in Normandy, Belgium and Holland, his officer getting the MC and he nothing despite them both being in the front line, his return to France after home leave (January 1945), and his last letter home from Germany (22 February 1945) describing the villages he went through and his feeling that the war will be over by late April, just before he was killed in action in Germany, near Goch (25 February 1945).Together with letters to Morris from friends, dated January and February 1945 and presumably among his effects on his death, from: Bombardier J White, 'B' Troop, 252nd Battery, 17th Medium Regiment, CMF (January 1945), describing his leave in Rome; WAAF Corporal Anita Cohen[?], Accounts Section, RAF Chessington, Surbiton, Surrey (January 1945), discussing Morris' leave in Brussells, the poor weather and road conditions; Nate Bassovitch, 'A' Company, 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment SEAC (January 1945), discussing the advance to Mandalay, and the German offensive in the Ardennes being good news as it was hastening their defeat; and Edith Salmon, a lodger with Brown's mother; also photographs of his mother, Lena Brown (née Greengut) (1908), an envelope containing the address of his aunt Zelde in Latvia (Latvija), a group photo of Morris with his siblings and mother (1922?), and a group photo of Morris and his two brothers (1939); certificates from the Jewish National Fund stating that trees had been planted in his name in Palestine / Israel, two certificates saying that trees had been planted in Israel in the name of his nephew, Wallace Fields; and a word-processed book by his nephew, Wallace Fields, containing copies of the letters with explanatory notes, biographical background about Morris, and details of his family.
- Access points: locations:
- France
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brown, Morris
- Fields, Wallace
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Jewish soldiers
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- Visit IWM website for Research Room access provisions see https://www.iwm.org.uk/research/research-facilities
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030031855
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Reference number:
- Documents.24667
- Title:
- Private Papers of M Brown
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of M Brown
- Creator/accumulator:
- Brown, Morris
- Date(s):
- 1922/1945
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- 25 ms letters written by a soldier to his sister and brother-in-law, Tilly and Israel 'Issy' Feldman (later Fields) and their son, Wallace, as well as to his mother, Lena, and brother, Joe (October 1940, and June 1944 – February 1945), while serving in Signal Section, HQ Company, 14th Battalion King's Regiment (Liverpool), (formerly 50th Battalion), guarding internees in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, with details of spending Jewish Holy days with Jewish Families, a route march on the TT course, dances and cinema trips, family matters, telling them of his arrival in France with 'F' Troop, 429 Battery, 81st (Glamorgan Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (RA) (53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division), North West Europe (June 1944), hoping his mother was not too upset at his going abroad, with details of his duties, his optimism for the swift end of the war, thanking them for parcels they sent, descriptions of France and the welcome from the local people, especially the women, his first experience of front line fighting, his sister taking in an evacuee girl, dancing in cafés, being a signaller in a Forward Observation Post, details of his living and duties, how interesting he finds the job and the pleasure he derived in calling in artillery to targets he had spotted, the bombardments from the Germans, taking Germans prisoner, his brothers' new business venture as tailors, describing to his brother the weeks leading up to D-Day and his time in Normandy, Belgium and Holland, his officer getting the MC and he nothing despite them both being in the front line, his return to France after home leave (January 1945), and his last letter home from Germany (22 February 1945) describing the villages he went through and his feeling that the war will be over by late April, just before he was killed in action in Germany, near Goch (25 February 1945).Together with letters to Morris from friends, dated January and February 1945 and presumably among his effects on his death, from: Bombardier J White, 'B' Troop, 252nd Battery, 17th Medium Regiment, CMF (January 1945), describing his leave in Rome; WAAF Corporal Anita Cohen[?], Accounts Section, RAF Chessington, Surbiton, Surrey (January 1945), discussing Morris' leave in Brussells, the poor weather and road conditions; Nate Bassovitch, 'A' Company, 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment SEAC (January 1945), discussing the advance to Mandalay, and the German offensive in the Ardennes being good news as it was hastening their defeat; and Edith Salmon, a lodger with Brown's mother; also photographs of his mother, Lena Brown (née Greengut) (1908), an envelope containing the address of his aunt Zelde in Latvia (Latvija), a group photo of Morris with his siblings and mother (1922?), and a group photo of Morris and his two brothers (1939); certificates from the Jewish National Fund stating that trees had been planted in his name in Palestine / Israel, two certificates saying that trees had been planted in Israel in the name of his nephew, Wallace Fields; and a word-processed book by his nephew, Wallace Fields, containing copies of the letters with explanatory notes, biographical background about Morris, and details of his family.
- Access points: locations:
- France
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brown, Morris
- Fields, Wallace
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Jewish soldiers
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- Visit IWM website for Research Room access provisions see https://www.iwm.org.uk/research/research-facilities
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030031855
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
