Letter to 'My darling Pat' [Winifred Patience Dansey] from 'Harry' [Delamere Dansey] dated 15 October 1917 from France. (6 leaves)

An extract from the text reads as follows:

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"A soldier’s burial consists of a winding sheet of a blanket sewn up, a narrow hole in the ground 4’6” [4 feet, 6 inches] deep & a simple short service after which the grave is surmounted by a little wooden cross, the name stamped on a narrow aluminium plate. A hero's end."

11571 (Presto content ID)

MS-873-2-3-18 (Reference Number)

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