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Description: | Four ms letters and a postcard (total 8pp), December 1916 and March 1918, written home to his wife during service with the 4th Battalion The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) (168th Brigade, 58th Division), describing his stay in Folkestone from where he was to cross to France, together with an ms letter (1p, 16 October 1918) sent to Mrs Whitehurst by a fellow soldier and informing her of her husband's likely death in action on 28 March; the official notification of his death (1p, AF B104-82A) from the Infantry Record Office, 25 June 1919; his death certificate (1p, Effects Form 100C) and covering note (1p), 20 August 1919; printed Royal message of sympathy (1p); and his birth and marriage certificates.
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Catalogue date 1999-08-14 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Whitehurst, A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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