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Description: | Ms letter (4pp) dated April 1917 and written while he was serving with 92 RFA Brigade on the Western Front with references to his father's promotion to Major General and to the merits of semi-open as opposed to trench warfare, together with an ms. letter (8pp) to his mother dated nearly a fortnight later from his commanding officer explaining how he had gone missing while on reconnaissance and his foolhardiness in remaining mounted while carrying out these duties, and an ms. letter of condolence (4pp) dated May 1917, after his death had been confirmed, and addressed to his brother by a comrade who expressed a desire for revenge and deplored '...that he had to go when so many rotters still live.'
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Catalogue date 1987-03-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Field Artillery British Army 92nd Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Renny, G M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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