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Description: | Ms letter (4pp, plus envelope) written to Private Jim Smith by the mother of Private Ernie Gays, who was killed on 18 August 1917 while serving with the Army Cyclist Corps on the Western Front, thanking Smith for informing her of her son's death and requesting further details of the circumstances in which he died. Together with a photograph of Mrs Gays with her daughter taken a few weeks after Ernie's death; a ts letter (3pp, April 1979) from Ernie's sister regarding Lyn Macdonald's inclusion of the story in her book 'They Called It Passchendaele'; and an ms letter (1p, November 1997) from Ethel's nephew, Robert Knight, regarding his aunt's death.
Cataloguer APR
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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