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Object description
2 undated ms letters to his wife, the first (2pp, ? June 1916) written whilst serving in the 14th Company Army Service Corps (ASC) and the second (2pp) following his transfer to the 1/7th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) (147th Brigade, 49th Division), showing his touching concern for her and their children and their life in London, his homesickness and his tacit acceptance of their separation, and requesting a photograph of her, together with a printed letter (Army Form B104-82) informing his wife that he has been killed in action (2 November 1918), a printed message of sympathy from the Secretary of State for War, Lord Milner, the printed letter from King George V which accompanied his Next of Kin Memorial Plaque, his Next of Kin Memorial Scroll, a ts note (1p, written by his son-in-law in February 1991) giving brief details of his widow's subsequent life and, following her death in 1974 in a psychiatric hospital, the burial of her ashes the following year in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France where her husband had been buried, and photographs of this ceremony, himself in uniform and his wife.
Content description
2 undated ms letters to his wife, the first (2pp, ? June 1916) written whilst serving in the 14th Company Army Service Corps (ASC) and the second (2pp) following his transfer to the 1/7th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) (147th Brigade, 49th Division), showing his touching concern for her and their children and their life in London, his homesickness and his tacit acceptance of their separation, and requesting a photograph of her, together with a printed letter (Army Form B104-82) informing his wife that he has been killed in action (2 November 1918), a printed message of sympathy from the Secretary of State for War, Lord Milner, the printed letter from King George V which accompanied his Next of Kin Memorial Plaque, his Next of Kin Memorial Scroll, a ts note (1p, written by his son-in-law in February 1991) giving brief details of his widow's subsequent life and, following her death in 1974 in a psychiatric hospital, the burial of her ashes the following year in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France where her husband had been buried, and photographs of this ceremony, himself in uniform and his wife.
History note
Cataloguer NS
History note
Catalogue date 1992-02-12