Letter sent on the death of Private Charles Green
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Letter sent on the death of Private Charles Green
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Author |
Buckley, Humphrey
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Subject |
Green, Charles
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Notes |
Letter sent by Captain Humphrey Buckley to Charles Green's mother breaking the news of his death. The first page is photographed with its envelope, and this is accompanied by a printed transcript of the whole letter. Part of a collection relating to Charles Green, who served as a machine gunner with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed on 8th February 1917, in the Somme area of France.
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Item date |
11th February 1917
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Creation place |
France
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Item medium | |
Content | |
Total number of pages |
2
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Cataloguer |
Meriel Patrick
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Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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Digital repository | |
Contributor name |
Meriel Patrick (Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull submissions day 31st May 2008)
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Contributed on the behalf of |
Michael Fenton
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Collection
Citation
“Letter sent on the death of Private Charles Green,” by Buckley, Humphrey. The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9419.
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