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Description: | Two interesting ms letters written to his family in Hackney, East London by an NCO serving in the 8th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment (72nd Brigade, 24th Division), the first (4pp, 15 March 1915) sent from Worthing and advising his son on his behaviour in his first job and the second (6pp, 21 August 1915) sent from Blackdown camp on Salisbury Plain and describing their training in trench warfare and a recent inspection by King George V and Queen Mary as well as reassuring his wife following a Zeppelin raid on London; together with a Battalion Christmas card (1914), four other undated greetings and postcards, his birth and marriage certificates, an official letter dated October 1916 confirming his death in action on 26 September 1915 during the Battle of Loos and his next of kin memorial scroll; also a postcard dated December 1917 from his son while under training with the 3/16th Battalion London Regiment on Wimbledon Common, and a partly used Ministry of Food national ration book (1919).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1998-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Haines, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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