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Description: | Photocopies (55pp) of 14 ms letters sent home (May 1915 - May 1917) while serving with the 1/5th Battalion The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and then No 7 Squadron RFC on the Western Front until his death in action near St Quentin on 8 May 1917, describing life in the trenches, expressing his concern for his relatives back home and requesting food parcels to be sent to him; together with a ts letter (1p) informing his family that he was missing (8 May 1917) and 14 ms/ts letters exchanged between his father, the War Office and the British Red Cross concerned with the ascertaining of news about him being shot down beyond enemy lines and then the details of his death (May - December 1917), with five ms letters home (May - July 1917) sent from his brother, Jack, who was also serving in France; together with copies of three photographs, two of him in uniform.
Cataloguer KM
Catalogue date 2006-03-16 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gaulter, C V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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