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Description: | 18 ms letters (34pp) and one postcard written to his family whilst serving in the 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (68th Brigade, 23rd Division) in France in 1917, offering reassurance of his safety, descriptions of living conditions and the joy at receiving parcels from home; also two letters of condolence (4pp) describing his death on 13 May 1917, his burial and souvenirs saved by his friends; together with official documents from the War Office regarding his death in action, a photocopied image of a memorial medal, a ts account of the families reaction to his death and a poem written by his granddaughter in 1993.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Moore, Enos | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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