Letter from Harry [Delamere Dansey], from 'The Somme', to 'My dear dear sweetheart' [Winifred Patience Dansey], dated 30 September 1916

An extract from the text reads as follows:

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"When I arrived at our present Camping ground I was greatly affected by the sudden news of my greatest friend here, Jack O’Neill having been killed this morning just as he was leaving the Front Lines. He was temporarily attached to one of the other machine gun companies. He is a very deep loss to me & also to us all. You knew Mr O’Neill but since you met him he had developed into a

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very fine specimen of manhood & a more sterling chap could not be met with in a life time. It is at such moments when such fine fellows are killed that even the strongest of those spared are oft to ponder over the irreparable losses."