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Description: | 57 ms letters, with ts transcription (42pp), written home to his parents mainly during service as a NCO with the 2/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (183rd Brigade, 61st Division) on the Western Front, May 1916 - December 1918, describing conditions in the trenches and his daily duties, war rumours and news from home including Zeppelin raids, food and supplies, time spent in No 2 Convalescent Camp at Rouen recovering from a knee injury, Christmas celebrations, his billets and estaminets, aerial warfare, leave spent back in the United Kingdom (November 1917), and his hospitalisation in No 12 General Hospital, Rouen with a severe gunshot wound which caused his death on 8 January 1918. Together with a number of ms letters, both private and official, written to his parents following his wounding and death, a portrait photograph of him in uniform, three printed Christmas cards, a souvenir silk postcard, 27 postcard photographs showing scenes of the Western Front and the funeral of General Sir Redfers Buller, and ts explanatory notes (2pp) to the correspondence.
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Catalogue date 2005-12-19 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tompkins, E E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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