Letter from Brig Gen Charles Stewart Davies to Pte Tafnell, a friend of Pte Leslie Bassett, expressing surprise at Bassett’s death, dated France, 21 Jan 1919.
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.