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Description: | A collection of 47 ms letters and 23 postcards, together with an edited ts transcript (47pp), sent to his parents in Walthamstow, London during his service as an NCO in the 2/5th Battalion London Regiment (174th Brigade, 58th Division) on the Western Front from January 1917 until just before he died of wounds, aged 19, on 6 November 1917 and giving some impression of life and conditions behind the lines and his pride in his unit as well as making reference to the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line and to the Battalion's part in the bitter fighting during the Third Battle of Ypres; also including two photographs and a number of letters of condolence to his family, among them ones from his company commander and a fellow NCO.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1997-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bayne, V P | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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