Letters
TCG Letter #2313
From
Robert Quilter Gilson
To
Estelle King
Date
4 October 1914
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Unknown
Gilson writes that Barnsley tried to persuade him to join the Old Edwardian recruits in the 'Birmingham Battalion'. He also says that his father (Robert Cary Gilson) wanted him to finish school before enlisting, and not to abandon Cambridge as the University needed to ensure a future supply of officers for the war effort.