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Accession Number

NAM.1999-11-107-16

Description

Letter from 23207 L/Cpl Frank Bentley, 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards, to his brother Cpl Arthur Bentley, Royal Army Medical Corps; written from Chelsea Barracks, postmarked Dec 1915; Frank describes his wife’s visit to London and the Changing of the Guard; verso and on a separate sheet is a copy of a letter from Arthur relating to his sending a parcel of clothing to Frank. Frank Bentley was killed in action at Gauche Wood, near Gouzeaucourt, 1 Dec 1917. His name appears on the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral.

Campaigns

World War One, Home Front (1914-1918)

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