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Description: | 35 ms letters and Field Service Postcards (61 folios) written to his sister, 1914 - June 1916, but with few dates, relating to his service with 'B' Company 7th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) (55th Brigade, 18th (Eastern) Division), based largely in Purfleet, Essex, and then Codford, Wiltshire, before moving to France with the BEF, being wounded and moving to No 10 General Hospital, Rouen (February 1916), moving to the VA (Voluntary Aid) Hospital, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire (March 1916), his return to France before his death in action in July 1916. Together with a ms transcription of a letter (1p) to his mother from his Captain saying he was 'missing believed killed' and describing his character and duties as Company barber, a certificate from King George V, a commemorative scroll, and a pre war portrait photograph of Turner.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 7th (Service) Battalion East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Turner, Raymond Horace | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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