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Description: | Folder containing photocopies of 22 postcards with ts transcriptions, 1909 - 1915, written to his family from Australia and while serving as a Private with the 19th Pioneer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (35th Division) during the First World War, mentioning his failure to get work in Australia and describing his duties at Army camps in Northumberland and Hampshire; together with photocopies, with transcriptions, of a postcard from his wife, two postcards from his brother-in-law to his wife and a postcard from his nephew; an ms letter (1p), 22 March 1912, supplying a reference for him; a field service postcard dated 11 July 1916, the day he was killed in action, and a ts transcription of a letter, 14 July 1916, written to him by his wife three days after his death; papers about his death including a registration card citing the location of his grave in France, a printed message of condolence from King George V and a scroll of remembrance, and ten photographs including some of him with members of his platoon. The collection also includes papers conveying land to his parents Thomas and Anne Crozier and six postcards with no information.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007-08-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Crozier, R E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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