letter, letter
Accession Number
NAM.1999-11-107-46
Description
Letter from 23207 L/Cpl Frank Bentley, 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards, to Linna Bentley, wife of his brother Cpl Arthur Bentley, Royal Army Medical Corps; written with the British Expeditionary Force, in France, 12 June 1917; Frank thanks her for newspapers and wishes that the war would end or that he could at least get a few days leave; 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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