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Description: | Ts transcription of 14 letters and postcards (40pp), with scanned images of some of the originals, written by him to his sister, concerning his service as a Captain with the 1/6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (144th Brigade, 48th Division) in France, between 25 May 1915 and 6 June 1916, recording his life in the trenches and his intentions to marry his fiancé on his next leave, with a newspaper article announcing his death on 27 July 1916 from wounds he received on the battlefield and also letters of condolence from various friends and family members, including one from L W Smith of the 2/6th London Field Ambulance, dated 9 October 1916, providing a good account of the medical treatment soldiers would have received if they were wounded on the Front Line.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2007-12-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bird, E W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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