Tales from the Front (22) tells the story of Alfred Davis, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Davis belonged to the 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, a unit sent from India to secure government-controlled oil interests in the Persian Gulf in late 1914. Davis came to Mesopotamia, now Iraq, a landscape long marked by conflict and empire. His journey ended at Sahil on November 17th, 1914.
Tales from the Front (20) tells the story of Harold Charles Legg, born in Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Born into a family of skilled craftsmen, Legg stepped away from this tradition to become a professional soldier. He served with the 2nd Dorset Battalion, stationed in India, but in 1914 part of the attack force sent to Iraq. Legg did not survive wounds suffered at the Battle of Sahil.
‘Simla-by-the-sea’ Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (145) explores the way in which British Indians perhaps experienced difficulty after migrating from their native homeland to British society. They may have found alienation and rejection, to escape from which they gravitated to spas, whose soothing climate and exclusive society perhaps reminded them of time they had spent in such […]