letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.1999-11-107-43

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, 24 Jan 1917; Frank advises Arthur that he has returned to his battalion; that leave is as far off as ever and that he is ‘fed up with things’, and giving news of mutual acquaintances; 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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