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Description: | Ts transcription (4pp) of an undated letter written during his service as a Lance Corporal with the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (40th Brigade, 13th Division) at Gallipoli, informing the Reverend Arthur Radcliffe of the death of his son, 2nd Lieutenant William Radcliffe, on 19 August 1915, and describing the circumstances of Radcliffe's death as part of the Battle of Sari Bair; together with a partial photocopy (1p) of an ms letter written by 2nd Lieutenant J C Litton while serving with the Royal Scots Greys in Germany, 7 May 1945, describing the capture of Bremen and the fierce opposition faced by the advancing British troops during the final months of the Second World War.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2005-05-24 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Scott, A G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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