John Eadie and David Abrahamson (9)
Page description
Title |
John Eadie and David Abrahamson (9)
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Subject |
Eadie, John and Abrahamson, David
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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
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Creation place |
UK
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Item medium | |
Content | |
Page number |
9
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Total number of pages |
13
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Cataloguer |
Everett Sharp
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Filename |
GWA_7186_IMG_1443.jpg
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Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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Digital repository | |
Contributor name |
Everett Sharp (Edinburgh Submission Day June 4th 2008)
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Contributed on the behalf of |
Sophia Abrahamsen
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Collection
Citation
“John Eadie and David Abrahamson,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/6229.
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Document description
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
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Creation place |
UK
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Item source | |
Item medium | |
Content | |
Total number of pages |
13
|
Cataloguer |
Everett Sharp
|
Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
|
Digital repository | |
Contributor name |
Everett Sharp (Edinburgh Submission Day June 4th 2008)
|
Contributed on the behalf of |
Sophia Abrahamsen
|
Citation
“John Eadie and David Abrahamson,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/6229.