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Ts transcripts (30pp) of 20 letters to his sister in New Zealand, the first two covering his departure from New Zealand and troopship voyage to Tasmania (November - December 1914), the next three his service as a Sapper with the 1st Divisional Field Company, New Zealand Engineers at Gallipoli, convalescence on Malta and service in Egypt (August 1915 - March 1916) and the remainder his service, eventually as a 2nd Corporal, with the same unit on the Western Front from May 1916 until his death in action in August 1918, apart from two months as an NCO instructor at the NZ Expeditionary Force Reserve Depot in Bournemouth, Dorset during the winter of 1917 - 1918 and including some interesting comments about the varying frequency of the arrival of mail from New Zealand, his fatalistic attitude towards the likelihood of his survival of prolonged and hazardous periods of active service and the very friendly reception given to New Zealand servicemen on leave in England; together with ts transcripts (4pp) of three letters of condolence to his family (August - December 1918), giving details of the circumstances of his death and a photocopy of a photograph of him in uniform taken while on leave in England.
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Ts transcripts (30pp) of 20 letters to his sister in New Zealand, the first two covering his departure from New Zealand and troopship voyage to Tasmania (November - December 1914), the next three his service as a Sapper with the 1st Divisional Field Company, New Zealand Engineers at Gallipoli, convalescence on Malta and service in Egypt (August 1915 - March 1916) and the remainder his service, eventually as a 2nd Corporal, with the same unit on the Western Front from May 1916 until his death in action in August 1918, apart from two months as an NCO instructor at the NZ Expeditionary Force Reserve Depot in Bournemouth, Dorset during the winter of 1917 - 1918 and including some interesting comments about the varying frequency of the arrival of mail from New Zealand, his fatalistic attitude towards the likelihood of his survival of prolonged and hazardous periods of active service and the very friendly reception given to New Zealand servicemen on leave in England; together with ts transcripts (4pp) of three letters of condolence to his family (August - December 1918), giving details of the circumstances of his death and a photocopy of a photograph of him in uniform taken while on leave in England.
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