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Accession Number

NAM.1999-11-107-47

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, 7 Nov 1917; Frank gives details of an inter-battalion shooting competition in which he took part; he has had problems with his feet after spending three days in the trenches up to his ankles in water; 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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