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Description: | 16 ms letters written to his wife while training with the 1/1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry TF (145th Brigade, 48th Division) at Chelmsford and then on active service in France, October 1914 - April 1915, providing an insight into the hardships suffered by the working classes when a husband volunteered for service while mentioning his financial situation, a rifle test for which he was rewarded 3d per day extra pay, and his embarkation for France in April 1915; together with 5 letters written to his wife relating to his death in May 1915.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Nash, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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