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Description: | Photocopy of an interesting ms letter (5pp), 29 December 1914, written to a friend in Britain while serving in the 1/16th Battalion London Regiment, the Queen's Westminster Rifles (18th Brigade, 6th Division) describing in detail his observations of and participation in the unofficial Christmas Truce southeast of Armentieres, including singing in the trenches and their decoration with coloured lights on Christmas Eve and fraternisation with the troops opposite on Christmas Day, and his subsequent rest after being withdrawn from the line on Boxing Day, together with a photocopy of a drawing of him in July 1915. (He was killed in action on 12 October 1915.)
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Catalogue date 1993-09-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Morley, Ernest Gordon | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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