| Description | These letters indicate that Humphrey Macmichael served in the 7th Border Regiment and was probably involved in the Battle of Loos which took place at the end of September 1915. Letters written during the summer of 1915 give details about his daily routine and conditions in the trenches.
/1 mentions the noise of the German guns, the kindness of the French people, and his amusement at listening to his men trying to make themselves understood, and then having to censor their letters. /2 describes having to work in building parapets in the trenches in deep mud, and the devastation caused to the local villages by shelling.
Letters written during the autumn contain information about the recent military action.
/3 mentions that 'our regiment took party in the last push at the end of September, and a rough time it was too' and gives brief details about the battle around the Ypres area. He records that he is now in billets some miles away from the firing line
/4 gives an account of the recent explosion of a German mine and gives details about the almost complete destruction of the town of Ypres by bombing.
Humphrey Macmichael was the son of Cynthia's aunt Sophia Curzon and Rev. Charles Macmichael, and therefore Cynthia's cousin |