Letter from Private Charles Green
Title |
Letter from Private Charles Green
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Author |
Green, Charles
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Notes |
Final letter home from Private Charles Green to his mother: he was killed a few days after this was written. The letter thanks his mother for a parcel received, requests some additional items, and talks about the practical consequences of the extreme cold the soldiers have to deal with. It is accompanied by a printed transcript.
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. |
Item date |
4th February 1917
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Creation place |
France
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Item source | |
Item medium | |
Content | |
Total number of pages |
4
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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 from Private Charles Green,” by Green, Charles. The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9421.
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