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, 18 June 1916; Frank acknowledges the receipt of parcels and newspapers; comments adversely on those employed in reserve occupations; says that their blankets have been taken away and they only have their greatcoats to sleep in; reports on an air fight in which a German aeroplane was shot down; Frank Bentley was killed in action at Gauche Wood, near Gouzeaucourt, 1 Dec 1917; his name appears on the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral.