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Description: | 2 ms letters (22pp) written while serving with the 8th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment (16th Brigade, 6th Division) in the front line north-west of Wieltje on the Ypres Salient, one to a friend (November 1915) giving very good descriptions of trench conditions and commenting on shirkers, and the other to his parents (December 1915) written in the form of a diary and including very detailed descriptions of a gas attack and 48 hours continuous bombardment, together with an ms letter to their parents from his brother Len (February 1916) writing from a hospital in England, encouraging them to be cheerful despite his brother's death and commenting on the different classes of men with whom he has had to mix. Captain Simeons died of wounds on 17 February 1916 and is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Cataloguer PJG
Catalogue date 1994-06-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Simeons, E E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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