Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916 / From Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years

A collection of personal letters from a young British officer serving in India and Mesopotamia during the First World War, addressed to family and friends. The correspondence records daily details of travel, leave, camp life and medical concerns alongside practical efforts to protect and care for men under his charge. It also contains reflective passages on fear, faith, duty and the moral stresses of modern warfare, and on friendships forged in hardship. Social anecdotes and small domestic sketches sit beside plain-eyed observations of military routine, creating a portrait of a life engaged with service and cut short before its plans were fulfilled.