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Description: | Pocket diary for 1917 containing brief and intermittent entries covering his service in the 7th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (18th Division) on the Western Front up to the time that he was wounded at Cherisy on 3 May; subsequent entries all relate to his time in hospital and as a convalescent in the United Kingdom, and the only entries of any length in the whole diary relate to his compassionate leave following his mother's death in February. Together with a ms letter (1p) from the Chaplain to the 7th Bedfords to Rednall's mother informing her that her son has been wounded, 3 May 1917, and a photocopy of a ts letter (1p) from the War Office to Rednall giving details of his military service, 7 December 1944.
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Catalogue date 1980-11-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rednall, R B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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