NAM.1999-11-107-28

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, 29 Apr 1916; Frank acknowledges the receipt of the newspapers and says that his last spell in the trenches was quiet; they are enjoying a few days rest, but he finds it too hot; Frank Bentley was killed in action at Gauche Wood, near Gouzeaucourt, 1 Dec 1917; his name appears on the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral.

World War One, Home Front (1914-1918) , World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)