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Description: | Photocopied ts extract from an interesting letter (4pp, undated) written during his service as a subaltern with the 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (9th Brigade, 3rd Division) on the Western Front, describing how he was wounded during the Battle of Arras (April 1917) and evacuated back to hospital in the United Kingdom. Together with photocopies of his commission certificate (2pp, December 1915), a trench map (1p), a ts letter ordering him to France (1p, August 1916), four silver spoons bought as souvenirs from towns on the Western Front (1p), and his military identity card from the Second World War (1p).
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2005-12-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hudson, S R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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