letter, letter
Accession Number
NAM.1999-11-107-49
Description
Letter to 23207 L/Cpl Frank Bentley, 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards, from his brother Cpl Arthur Bentley, Royal Army Medical Corps; written on the 15 Dec 1917 and returned on the 16th Dec 1917 stamped, ‘Killed in Action’; in it Arthur informs Frank that he has bought a piano and that Frank could be with them at Christmas for ‘a nice party’; he wishes Frank ‘as happy a time as the situation will allow’; 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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