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Description: | A scrapbook of prints, newspaper cuttings, documents and ephemera depicting the service of Rifleman Alexander Everett's service in the Queen's Westminster Rifles during the First World War. Prints include a number of official photographs, and some private snaps that cover the Somme Offensive, Arras, the RFC air offensive and great German advance on 1918. Documents pasted into the album include a personal letter from HM King George on Everett's release from a German POW camp, his soldier's demobilization account, the 6th Battalion the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry regimental magazine Vol 1, Number 7, and various tickets and chits. Also glued into the album are Everett's pay book and his fibre identity discs. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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