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Description: | Ms letter (5pp) written home to his mother during service as a Private with the 7th Battalion Cameron Highlanders (44th Brigade, 15th Division) on the Western Front, 19 April 1917, describing his Battalion's recent fighting in the Battle of Arras and his own success in surviving 'without a scratch', while the rest of the letter concerns mainly family news; Jolly was killed in action four days later on 23 April. Together with a photograph of him in uniform, the official notification (1p, May 1917) that he had been reported as missing in action, a note from the IWGC (1p, November 1928), and the bronze memorial plaque sent to his family.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2005-08-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jolly, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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