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Description: | Small collection comprised mainly of official documents, relating to his service as a subaltern in the 23rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (99th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division) on the Western Front from June 1917 - March 1918, including his discharge certificate (Army form E.511) from the 9th Battalion The London Regiment on his appointment to a commission (April 1917), the citation for his Military Cross (December 1917), the War Office telegram giving an incorrect notification of his death in action (March 1918), two letters of condolence (one a ts copy) from his Commanding Officer (April 1918), issue of the `L & N W Gazette' containing his obituary notice (May 1918), two picture postcards of the hospitals at the prisoner of war camp at Ohrdruf, Germany, two circular letters from the War Office about the circumstances of his capture (October 1918 - April 1919), letter and illustrated certificate confirming the termination of his Army service because of his disabilities (April - May 1920) and correspondence and memoranda from the Ministry of Pensions about his final war pension award (May - June 1924); together with a photograph of him in uniform (June 1917) and three X-ray photographs showing the progress of the surgical work on his fractured right leg following his repatriation from Germany (September 1918 - January 1919)
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1991-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 2nd Division British Army Royal Fusiliers 99th Infantry Brigade 23rd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bird, H D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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