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Description: | An album of items relating to the service, and death in action, of Private Claude Briggs, 21st (Public Schools) Battalion Royal Fusiliers, and 'B' Company, 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, including photographs of him, scenes of France, particularly Shrewsbury Wood, and of his graves, letters and postcards written to his parents, official notifications of his death, exhumation and burial, newspaper cuttings, and letters from fellow soldiers to his parents giving details of Briggs and the attack on Shrewsbury Wood in which he died (September 1917). Together with four large albums of photographs, postcards and newspaper and magazine cuttings, relating to annual visits to the Ypres Salient 1919 - 1939, with private and published images from a number of sources, showing images of France and Belgium, destruction, trenches, soldiers, graves, cemetaries, memorials and remembrance ceremonies, and a volume containing index and notes of 800 lantern slides of Ypres. Also included is a notebook containing newspaper cuttings, leaflets, pamphlets and other information concerning air raid precautions, particularly in the Broadstairs and St Peter's Urban District Council area, Kent (1937 - 1939), and a field message concerning German prisoners of war signed by Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), when a Captain in XIV Corps (December 1916).
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 26th Battalion 21st Battalion (Public Schools) British Army Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Briggs, L K | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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