NAM.2012-04-9-125
Letter to Capt Geoffrey George Gunnis MC, 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards, from his aunt Lady Mary Lloyd, 26 Great Cumberland Place, London, 1916. From a group of 247 letters, postcards, papers and envelopes sent to and from members of the Lloyd family, including Lt Gen Sir Francis Lloyd and Lady Mary Lloyd, 1865-1928. Associated with Battle of the Somme, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918) 1916. Geoffrey Gunnis’s father Francis Gunnis was Mary Lloyd’s brother. The date is hard to read, but may be 6 October 1916. The letter was possibly sent to Geoffrey Gunnis in hospital in Rouen after he was severely wounded in the attack on Les Boeufs - he died a week later.
Somme, Battle of the, 1916 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)