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Description: | 3 ms letters (7pp) written to him while serving as a Sergeant with the Middlesex Regiment, two dated circa September 1917 from Miss Brewer, a nurse friend whose uncle was a Lieutenant Colonel who has been seriously wounded but awarded a bar to his DSO, referring to how relatives coped with injury to loved ones and the threat of death, Harry himself recovering in hospital from a wound; the other dated 6 November 1917 from the Lieutenant Colonel, advising him how to obtain a commission. Together with two photographs of Harry showing him in uniform with tropical helmet and alongside his wife; an ms letter (2pp) to Miss Brewer; five newspaper clippings relating to Harry's death in 1966 noting his service in the RFC and receiving a Military Medal; and two small photographs relating to Miss Brewer's brother, Private Ernest Brewer of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
Cataloguer AJC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harry, Robert Henry Clifford | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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