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Description: | Small collection of documents relating to his service as a Private with the 11th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment based in the United Kingdom and then on active service with the 7th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (54th Brigade, 18th Division) in France during the First World War, including three ms letters (12pp, 1918) written to his sweetheart and looking forward to their reunion; two photographs of him in uniform; a ms letter of condolence (2pp, July 1918) from Kirkham's officer following his death in action on 30 June 1918; his AB64 Soldier's Pay Book; a pass issued to him for travelling to Lowestoft (AF B295, January 1918); cyclostyled Battalion Orders (3pp, January 1918); and a County of Suffolk Court Summons issued to Kirkham in November 1917 for riding a bicycle without lights.
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Catalogue date 2003-06-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kirkham, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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