Letter from Pte Leslie Bassett to Ernest and Lily Bassett, dated 26 Oct 1917.
Written after Battle of Polygon Wood, praises his Colonel for receiving DSO and William Bassett for being ‘such a man’.
Associated with World War One, Western Front, Battle of Polygon Wood (1914-1918), 1917.
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.