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Description: | 6 ts/ms circular letters (18pp) written to members of a Club while serving with the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards (3rd Guards Brigade, Guards Division) on the Western Front, September 1916 - October 1917, together with 4 similar letters (9pp) written by his sister Enid, January 1917 - April 1918, giving few details of his wartime experiences but relating news about mutual acquaintances until his death in action on 1 December 1917; his final letter is a 'last letter' prepared beforehand in the event of his death. Also held with the collection is a printed/ts letter of appreciation (1p, 21 March 1919) to Private E Racaby from Colonel I Fowte, South African Military Command.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2003-06-17 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Chamberlain, N G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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