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Description: | 3 ms letters written while serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, the first two (no dates, ?ca spring 1916) when with the 14th (Reserve) Battalion at Seaford and the last (January 1917) with the 16th Battalion (100th Brigade, 33rd Division), giving very brief details of his training such as bomb throwing and food rations, the introduction of conscription and being in the line over Christmas 1916. He was later killed during the Battle of Arras on 22 April 1917.
Cataloguer NS
Catalogue date 1990-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Watts, J A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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