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Description: | 22 ms letters (62pp), with ts transcription (12pp), written home to his family while serving with the 21st Divisional Cyclist Company on the Western Front, December 1915 - January 1916, describing his voyage to France and arrival at Boulogne, his billets, conditions in the trenches and his duties, gas training, recreational activities including cards and roulette, the presence of German spies behind the lines, the sensation of being shelled and German deserters; together with two photographs of him in uniform, a few newspaper cuttings relating to his death in action on 26 January 1916, and an ms letter of condolence (1p) written to his father by Major A Hay, Hall's Commanding Officer, dated 27 January 1916.
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Catalogue date 2003-01-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hall, Kenneth Stuart | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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