Private Papers of L J Hewitt

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Content description

Photocopy of a ts memoir (63pp) about his early life in Belgrave, Leicestershire, and service with 7th and 8th Service Battalions (110th Brigade, 37th Division), and 1st and 2nd Battalions the Leicestershire Regiment on the Western Front, as a Lewis gunner, and staying on in the Army after the war.

History note

Cataloguer SJO

Object details

Category

Private papers

Related period

First World War (content)

Creator

Hewitt, Leonard James

Production date

1918

Dimensions

File: Weight 0.5 kg

Box: Weight 2.9 kg

Catalogue number

Documents.21604

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