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Description: | Transcribed ts letter (7pp in English) to his wife, describing his first front line experience at Verdun with the 71st Infantry Regiment of the German Army (May 1916), including the march up to the field of battle, his growing acclimation to shellfire, the fear among the men of his Regiment of an anonymous death in France and his memories of working in a burial party for the bodies of French and German soldiers in the area.
Cataloguer BEK
Catalogue date 2006-08-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Schartenberg, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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