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Description: | 41 ms letters (70pp) written to Miss E Sibthorp between 11 January 1918 and 29 October 1918 during his service with the 3rd Battalion New Zealand Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front; with descriptions of mainly family matters, but with mention of his machine gunner training in the UK, his unit's deployment to France in August 1918, his convalescence in hospital after receiving a severe gunshot wound to the knee on 29 September and the large amount of suffering he witnessed in hospital; he died of influenza on 7 November 1918. Also included are 5 photographs, his grave registration certificate and photograph, a photograph holder, a printed obituary, a notebook with brief chronology of his military service (2pp), 16 ms letters (40pp) from nurses tending him at the hospital, and letters of condolence after his death from friends and comrades. The collection also contains letters dated 1918 from Miss Sibthorp's brother Herbert who served in France, 7 ms letters (19pp) from her cousin B Bunttin dated 10 August 1902 to 22 November 1903 and 2 undated incomplete letters.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2007-01-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hooper, C L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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