NAM.2005-09-57-8

Inventory description: Ms correspondence of Douglas Hamlin McKie (1917) with his family while training in Newcastle and preparing for service in France; together with ms and ts letters (1917-1918) sent to his sister and parents following his death in action at the Battle of Arras (April 1917). Douglas Hamlin McKie served with the Artists' Rifles and Northumberland Fusiliers and was killed at the Battle of Arras, 1917.