letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.1999-11-107-27

Description

Letter from 23207 L/Cpl Frank Bentley, 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards, to his brother Cpl Arthur Bentley, Royal Army Medical Corps; written with the British Expeditionary Force in France, 10 Apr 1916; Frank acknowledges the receipt of a parcel and tells Arthur that it may be some time before he can write again as he will be in the trenches; they have been shelled heavily by the Germans and are short of munitions; 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) , World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)

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