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Description: | Collection of documents relating to his service as Adjutant of the 16th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (Public Schools) (86th Brigade, 29th Division) on the Western Front, comprising a photocopied ts transcription (4pp) of two letters of condolence written to his mother by the Battalion's CO and Chaplain following the First Day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916) when Cockram was very seriously wounded and taken prisoner, but seen by several members of the battalion to be so badly wounded that it was presumed he had been killed; a photograph of him in uniform; photocopy (1p) of an ms letter sent home to his family while a prisoner of war in hospital in Hannover, 12 December 1916; an ms letter (2pp, 21 April 1919) from Brigadier General J Hamilton Hall, OC 39th Division, informing Cockram of his own movements since they last met; service records including his commission; a ts telegram (1p, 6 February 1919) requesting his attendance at the investiture for his DSO at Buckingham Palace; and photocopied notes and maps (7pp) concerning the action in which Cockram was wounded.
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Catalogue date 2007-12-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cockram, F S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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