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Description: | 17 ms letters (52pp) and 4 postcards written to his wife and son during his service with the 2/4th Battalion London Battalion (2/1st London Brigade, 2/1st London Division), first in Egypt until June 1916 and then on the Western Front until his death on the Somme on 11 September 1916; recounting mostly family and personal matters, with mentioning of his desire to stay in Egypt before being sent to France and then the incessant tedium and stress of living in the sodden trenches; also included are two letters (4pp) written by his wife which were returned to her unread. Also included in the collection are 11 army forms written to his widow regarding his pension, burial site and post war medals.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-09-20 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Mortlock, Herbert Arthur | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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