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Description: | Two ms letters (4pp) and an ms postcard, May - June 1915, written to her by her brother Harry while serving as a Private with the 1st Battalion Essex Regiment (88th Brigade, 29th Division), mentioning embarking at Devonport for Gallipoli and his time in the trenches; together with an ms postcard from Miss French to her mother and two ms postcards from Oliver Warner to his parents; three photographs, dated 1919, of Miss French and other WAAC personnel, one photograph of her brother in uniform and a photograph of people in theatrical costume; various mobilisation, movement and demobilisation papers relating to her service in the WAAC, a copy of Army Council Instructions and WAAC uniform badges; and an obituary for her brother killed in action in Gallipoli on 28 June 1915. The collection also includes an order of service, 4 August 1918, remembering the fourth anniversary of the declaration of war, a ts poem, "A Corner in Abbeville" by A Gebbett, two reunion dinner menus, two pictures of St Martins Cathedral, Ypres, before and after bombing and a Christmas card from the Espana Concert Party, 1918.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007-08-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | French, L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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