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Category: Submarines: Anti
Letter from a Frenchman to K.G.V. [???]
Scrapbook pages
1914-1918
Miss Greig (Domestic Front) - early pages of scrapbook, letter from very patriotic Frenchman.
Category: Somme - Battle of; July 1st - November 1916
G.B.Harridge (GS) Box 1. Frenchman'sdescription of 2nd Bn.of 8th Infantry Regt's attack, 18.9.16.
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Category: French
P.E.McEvoy (GS) Letter 30.4.17. A Frenchman and sister returned to the village and dug up three crocks of gold buried since 28 August 1914. They also looked for their 30 bottles
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Category: Accidents and Accidental Wounding
F.A.Corfield (GS) Letter 21.6.15. Description of 3 bombing accidents in 2 days. 18.3.18. Driver of his car killed in road accident. 29.3.18. Frenchman involved in this accident claimed £100 damages.
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Category: Germans/German Weapons and German POWs
W.Mahoney (GS) Diary 22.2.17. Doullens. Hundreds of prisoners on the station platform - all very depressed. 7.9.16 - Frenchman/said that Uhlans occupying the village "used to powder and paint themselves and curl up their moustaches and all carried mirrors."
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Category: Death, Bereavement and Commemoration
A.H.Cabeldu (RFC) Letters 93,116 "I am the only one left of 61 officers ... Letter 47 - officer hit by a shell - put all they could find of him in a sandbag. J .6 17.11.15 - Met an old Frenchman whose son had been killed in the war.