First World War Poetry Digital Archive

John Eadie and David Abrahamson

Title
John Eadie and David Abrahamson
Subject
Eadie, John and Abrahamson, David
Notes
Letter to daughter from John Eadie
Residue of Naval Assets (John Eadie)
Leith School Board, two certificates for David Abrahamson
Postcard, lowestoft
Patriotic card 'To Lottie from Dadda'
Photo x 2 John Eadie

Photo group. the Eadie family:
Sophia, holding book
Agnes, oldest child
Charlotte, 2nd daughter
Johnny, son referred to in letter

My grandfather John Eadie was lost on 2nd April 1916 when his minesweeper HMS Commandant struck a mine at Lowestoft.
The letter he sent to my mother was probably written the Christmas before he died. He refers to Zeppelins and he died the day they attacked Leith.

He was a Leith man who married a Newhaven woman and lived in Newhaven at the time he died. The Family wrote letters to say they were OK, but he had died the same day.
Item date
1914 - 1916
Creation place
UK
Item source
Multiple
Item medium
Paper
Content
Collection
Total number of pages
13
Cataloguer
Everett Sharp
Copyright
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repository
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor name
Everett Sharp (Edinburgh Submission Day June 4th 2008)
Contributed on the behalf of
Sophia Abrahamsen

Citation

“John Eadie and David Abrahamson,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9541.

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