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Description: | Ms letter (2pp, with envelope), dated 29 April 1920, from C G Lavell to a Miss Phyllis Bicknell in Highbridge, Somerset telling her how her fiance, Captain W R Eppstein, had been his Company Commander in the 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (124th Brigade, 41st Division) on the Western Front and that, just before Eppstein was mortally wounded at Dickebusch in early September 1918, he had said that 'his last thoughts' were of his fiancee and that he had 'met his fate like a brave man, and if ever a soldier made the great sacrifice with a complete understanding and cheerful resignation that did Captain Eppstein'; together with a photograph of Eppstein in uniform and Lavell's business card.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2005-11 | 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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