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Description: | Collection of official papers (82pp) concerning his service as a Private with the 16th (Sussex Yeomanry) Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (230th Brigade, 74th Division) and his death in action on 16 November 1917 whilst he was stationed in Salonika, including a substantial amount of interesting and increasingly heated correspondence between his mother and the War Office, recording the dispute over who was entitled to his estate and personal belongings given that he hadn’t made a Will, his parents had separated and on top of this his father was of German nationality, also with an ms letter (1pp) sent from his father to his mother, revealing how he had become a Prisoner of War and had been sent back to Germany in April 1918 as well as a ts transcription of one of the last letters (3pp) he wrote to his mother, dated 8 April 1917, recording the training and other activities he had participated in, his rations and recent dental treatment.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British War Office British Government British Army Royal Sussex Regiment | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Harold Ernest | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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