Description: | 10 ms letters (28 folios including envelopes) written to his sister (September - December 1916), while serving as a Corporal with 4 Section, 'D' Company, Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps, then D Battalion, 11th Company, Heavy Branch, MGC, in France, later the Tank Corps, with references to tanks, narrowly being shot while in action and his part in the Battle of the Somme, casualties, mud, and excitement at hearing that a Zeppelin had been shot down in England. White was later killed in October 1917 while serving with the Tank Corps.
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