NAM.1999-11-107-6

Letter from 23207 L/Cpl Frank Bentley, 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards, to his brother Cpl Arthur Bentley, Royal Army Medical Corps. Written from the Guards Depot, Caterham, Postmarked 20 Apr 1915. Frank informs his brother that he has had his vaccinations and that two aeroplanes passed over, one of which was said to be, ‘the German that made a raid on Faversham’. Frank Bentley was killed in action at Gauche Wood, near Gouzeaucourt, 1 Dec 1917; his name appears on the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral.

World War One, Air Operations (1914-1918), World War One, Home Front (1914-1918)