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Description: | Printed booklet entitled 'Letters from the Past' (27pp) containing ts transcriptions of letters written by members of the Yates family during both World Wars, including letters from Fred Yates during his service with an unidentified unit in Salonika, describing a long trek under poor weather conditions (March 1917), and in Egypt (January 1919); from Sydney and Dryden Yates during their respective service with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the RAMC on the Western Front (November 1917); from Harold Yates during his service with a Royal Artillery unit on the south coast of England, decribing German air raids (undated but First World War); from Dryden Yates, a Methodist Minister serving with the Army (undated); from family friend Hilda Allen, describing civilian life in wartime Romania (June 1940) before fleeing to Egypt where she describes entertaining the troops (June 1944); and from Jack Yates, describing an air raid on the City of London during the Blitz (29 December 1940).
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Catalogue date 2005-12-30 | 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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