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Description: | 4 ms letters (8pp) and 2 postcards written to his family between 31 May and 10 July 1917 during his service as a sapper with the Royal Engineers on the Western Front containing only family matters due to the censor; also included are 2 ms letters written by a Chaplain to his family following his wounding and subsequent death on 22 July 1917, 2 telegrams about his death, his burial certificate, official military death certificate, 2 ms letters of condolences to his parents, an ms account of his death, 3 London newspapers carrying his obituary and 3 photographs of him in uniform. The collection also contains the RAF service book and the calling out notice belonging to his nephew Sidney Edward who served during the Second World War.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-11-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Etches, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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