WAR OF 1914-1918. 56 L.A.S. and 2 L.A. from Henry TISSIER (1 - Lot 439

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WAR OF 1914-1918. 56 L.A.S. and 2 L.A. from Henry TISSIER (1 - Lot 439
WAR OF 1914-1918. 56 L.A.S. and 2 L.A. from Henry TISSIER (1866-1926, physician and bacteriologist), to his wife, née Alice Garnier, in Petites-Dalles (Seine-inférieure) and in Paris, October 8, 1914-February 28, 1915 and December 24, 1915-May 25, 1916; 187 pages in various formats, one address on a postcard Military Correspondence, one envelope (one letter missing) Interesting correspondence from this Pasteur Institute researcher, attached to the 87th Territorial Infantry Division ambulance as an aide-major. The letters are written from Saint-Pol-sur-Mer, Blamertinghe, Ypres, Killem (North), Polincove, etc. The division operated in Belgium and Northern France. "I have absolutely nothing to fear," Tissier said on October 11, 1914. He insisted on the convenience of their installations, the courage of the soldiers, the interest of their stages, the superiority of French weapons, and the distance between the ambulance and the front lines. And he cheerfully recounts small incidents from his service. "Their corpses were cluttering up the trenches and as our territorials had taken their trenches with bayonets, the corpses were thrown on top and as they could not be buried, they were sprinkled with quicklime. It's unheard of for them to sacrifice men! We lose half as many as they do. Our weapons seem to be more lethal. Theirs wound but kill less" (October 30, 1914)... Observations and anecdotes on the enemy's equipment, the differences between the ambulances, what one knows or hears about the Kaiser, the bad tongues that would like to transform the admirable retreat of the Marne into a rout, that accuse the troops of the South of being cowards, and the wives of the poilus of being unfaithful... At the beginning of February 1915, it seems that the enemy is saving its projectiles: "25 wounded in 8 days, what a misery instead of the 1000 per week in November"... The Germans would have already lost two and a half million men... Etc.
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