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Description: | 15 ms letters (42pp) written home to his sister while serving as a Private with the 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers (3rd Brigade, 1st Division until February 1918, then 48th Brigade, 16th Division) in various locations but mainly on the Western Front, November 1914 - March 1918, referring almost exclusively to family matters and news from home, but mentioning his service at Gallipoli and in Salonika, the absence of beer, and an encounter with a German soldier whom he killed with a hand grenade. Together with 8 used field service postcards, two photographs of him in uniform, a ms letter (2pp) from his sister returned unopened after his death in action on 18 October 1918, an 'in memoriam' card, several press cuttings newspaper obituaries and a printed programme for the unveiling and dedication of Catcliffe War Memorial (8pp, November 1920).
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Catalogue date 2003-06-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Payne, Leonard | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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