Letter from James Tate to his mother, Millicent Tate (née Farren), 18 May, 1916 Letters 1916-1923 James Tate

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Letter from James Tate to his mother in which he describes his time in the club headquarters in Rawalpindi. Tate responds to a previous letter from his parents in which he refers to family members at home. James's father, Alec C Tate, also served with British army in India before he married Millicent Farren and started a family in Whiteabbey Co. Antrim. Their sons, James and William continued the military tradition and enlisted with the British army with James serving as a Second Lieutenant with the Indian Expeditionary Force. James spent the majority of the war in India during which time the Indian Expeditionary Force was dispatched to Mesopotamia. This letter is part of a collection that he wrote to his parents detailing his movements and his day to day experience.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Tate Papers, D2859/2/12 https://letters1916.ie/item/2734 English James Tate 1916-05-18 The Club, Rawalpindi, India Millicent Tate Slieve na Failthe, Whiteabbey, Co. Antrim, Ireland Male Personal Relations World War I (1914-1918) Personal Relations

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 Rawal Pindi Club Rawal Pindi 18th May 1916. My dear Mother I have not written to you for ages so here goes. As you see I have moved into the club quarters. For one thing the Royal Hotel has has closed here & opened at Murree. also there are tons of quarters vacant here now. There are 18 in all & in the cold weather they are crammed with the staff etc. No more news come about my going off to the garden of Eden or up that way. From all accounts it is an over rated place. Leastwise for the next three months. I hope there is a field company job going when I get there. They have just started to build a Railway from Bushra up the bank of the river & I see possible visions of cooly driving. Which would be rotten. Prince got a letter from the division asking for suggestions for the formation of bombing schools one in the Murree hills. I expect he will get the job as he wrote in soreeds about it. If he does he says he will put in for me as an assistant bottlewasher etc. which will ruin my chances of getting off. I tried to argue the point but he was not having any. The thing has to go up to our old friends the God of India so I expect they will sit on it for a year at least. If so I shall be safe. I am going on leave on 1st June up to Gharial I am going to stay with Martin in tents on the Gharial Flats. (Where No 13 Coy was last year) There is a Col Smallwood R.A. in command of the Arsenal here. he says he knows Daddy well & wished to be rembered to him. he says he once sold him a horse called Whadhurst. & that It ought to have been run in steeple chases — not on the flat. Please Thank Phil for her last weeks mail & tell her I will answer it next week. also Ander for his long letter. I am sorry to hear that he has developed a liking for old square face so young From your loving son. Jimmy P.S. No news from Billy. Mrs. A. C. Tate. Slieve-na-Failthé Whiteabbey Co Antrim IRELAND The Club, Rawalpindi, India Letter from James Tate to his mother, Millicent Tate (née Farren), 18 May, 1916 Slieve na Failthe, Whiteabbey, Co. Antrim, Ireland Letter from James Tate to his mother, Millicent Tate (née Farren), 6 August, 1916Letter from James Tate to his mother, Millicent Tate (née Farren), 1 June, 1916Letter from James Tate to his mother, Millicent Tate (née Farren), 18 May, 1916 James Tate Letter from James Tate to his mother, Millicent Tate (née Farren), 24 September, 1916Letter from James Tate to his mother, Millicent Tate (née Farren), 18 May, 1916