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• Letter from the Western Front enclosing a Pressed Poppy

  (private papers)

  Ms letter (4pp) from Bill to ?his wife Louise Fletcher, 10 July 1918, written while on active service in France and describing the experience as 'hell on Earth'. Enclosed with the letter is a pressed poppy as a souvenir.

• Killed in action letter, October 1914

  (private papers)

  Printed/ms letter (1p) sent by the Records Office [Army Form B104 - 82] to the wife of Private Harry Fuller (November 1914) notifying her of his death in action while serving with the 1st Norfolk Regiment (15th Brigade, 5th Division) in France (probably...

• Letters concerning censorship of telegrams to a Norwegian newspaper, 1914.

  (private papers)

  A small collection of letters from the First World War, including four letters (2 ms, 2 ts) concerning the censorship of telegrams sent to a Norwegian daily newspaper `Morgenbladet', October 1914, a German ms letter from a soldier somewhere near the...

• Killed-in-action letter from HMS BARHAM, November 1941

  (private papers)

  Ts killed-in-action letter sent to the father of Ordinary Seaman H Moores, reported missing and presumed dead while serving in HMS BARHAM on 25 November 1941, together with a letter concerning eligibility for pension and a copy of the Certificate of the...

• Letter From a Soldier in the Chinese Labour Corps, June 1918

  (private papers)

  Ms letter (2pp and envelope) written in Chinese on the headed notepaper of the YMCA in June 1918 by a soldier in the Chinese Labour Corps to his wife, Mrs Sung, in Peking, giving details of the Chinese Dragon Festival he has helped celebrate on the...

• Private Papers of A L Saunders

  (private papers) Made by: Saunders, A L 1951

  Ms. letter (4pp) dated September 1951 and written by a Private in the 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment concerned mainly with family and personal matters together with a slip concerning his kit, issued to him while serving in the Northamptonshire...

• Private Papers of B J Fielder

  (private papers) Made by: Fielder, B J

  Series of 42 ms letters written to his wife while serving with the 12th Battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry Brigade at Gallipoli and in the 2nd Hood Battalion RND for a brief period in France, 1914 - 1916, providing an insight into his anxiety for his...

• Private Papers of W J Lambert

  (private papers) Made by: Lambert, W J

  Small collection of papers relating to his exemption from military service while working for the Central Argentine Railway Limited in Argentina, including a ts letter (1p) from employees of the railway requesting permission to register under Lord Derby's...

• Letter concerning the burning of a Zeppelin at Cuffley, Hertfordshire, September 1916

  (private papers)

  Ms letter (4pp) written by Patrick Blundstone, a schoolboy staying at Cuffley, Hertfordshire (September 1916) to his father in London, describing in graphic schoolboy detail the landing of a Zeppelin in flames close to the house and the 'roasted'...

• Letter from Field Marshal Earl Haig concerning Field Marshal Viscount Plumer, November 1918

  (private papers)

  Ts letter (1p), dated 7 November 1918, from Field Marshal Sir Douglas (later Earl) Haig to Viscount Milner, the Secretary of State for War, asking that General Sir Herbert (later Field Marshal Viscount) Plumer, who had commanded the Second Army since May...