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Description: | Two ms letters (6pp and 3pp) written while he was serving with the 8th Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment (16th Brigade, 6th Division) in France and Belgium, March - April 1916, in which he describes a typical day in the trenches, the weather, the French and Belgium countryside and the people, talks with admiration about the soldiers under his command, and asks for more letters for himself and some comforts for his men; together with photographs, an appreciation of his life and career written in 1974, and a copy of The Bedfordshire Regiment Memorial Picture booklet.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1986-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Charles, W E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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