letter, letter
Accession Number
NAM.2008-11-38-13
Description
Letter from Pte Jack Sadler to Tom Sadler, dated 6 Feb 1916. Says letters get held up when censored regimentally. Describes drills. ‘I’ve seen as many as 25 planes over the German lines being fired at by about thirty shells a minute ... They don’t hit one in a ‘blue moon’’. Associated with D Coy 15th Warwickshire Regiment. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). Sadler’s family lived in Birmingham and in Staffordshire, and were involved in the manufacturing industry.
Campaigns
World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)
Associated collection