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Description: | A very frank ms letter (3pp) written by an unknown soldier to Alfred Summerson, a solicitor at Pocklington in Yorkshire, recounting the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917, evoking the horrors of no mans land by describing in detail the disconcerting screaming of shells overhead, the overwhelming amount of dead and wounded he witnessed and the imposing presence of tanks on the battlefield as he fought futilely to reach the German lines.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-10-30 | 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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