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Description: | Photocopies of 5 well-written ms letters to his parents, July - August 1916, using a special code to indicate his whereabouts and describing his crossing to France with a draft from the 1/5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, conditions at the base camp at Etaples and his service in a working party from the 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (3rd Division) on the Somme front. Gale was killed in action on the Somme on 18 August 1916 and a letter from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, written in 1978, notes that his death was not commemorated for over sixty years because of some oversight.
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Catalogue date 1982-03-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gale, E O | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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