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Description: | Ts transcripts (8pp), with another later and more heavily edited ts transcript (8pp), of extracts from the letters written home from the Western Front between 29 November and 11 December 1914 by a subaltern in the Lincolnshire Regiment who was attached to the 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers (3rd Brigade, 1st Division) making some reference to conditions just behind the lines and in particular to their messing arrangements, and of letters of condolence from his commanding officer and a fellow subaltern (the latter both detailed and touching) following his death in action during an attack at Festubert on 21 December 1914. With these letters is a ts copy (2pp, with 1p ts covering note) of a letter written in July 1917 from Strohen prisoner of war camp in Germany by Lieutenant E B Denison, an observer in the RFC, describing how Captain H Tomlinson MC, the pilot of his aircraft, was mortally wounded during a dogfight on 2 April 1917 when they were forced down behind the German lines.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1997-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Owen, Ernest H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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