Typed letter from King George V on Buckingham Palace headed notepaper, nd.
Text runs: ‘I join with my grateful people in sending you this memorial of a brave life given for other in the Great War’.
Pasted in scrapbook.
Associated with World War One, Peace (1914-1918).
From a collection of 82 letters, cuttings and maps related to the service and death of Pte Leslie ‘Jack’ Bassett, serving with the 32nd Bn Australian Infantry Force in France during World War One (1914-1918). 
Bassett was born in London and emigrated to Australia, where he enlisted, and was batman to Brig Gen C S Davies, Bassett died in Harefield Hospital on 10 Jan 1919 of a weak heart.