Read Christmas in the Trenches Online
Authors: Alan Wakefield
89/7/1: Ts Memoir, Gnr Fred Warburton, RFA.
01/38/1: Ts Memoir, Pte George Watts, 2/4th Hampshires.
97/17/1: Ms Diary & Ts Transcription, Pte Henry White, 1/5th The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment).
Con Shelf: Ms Letters, Pte George Wilkinson, 10th Royal Fusiliers.
97/18/1: Ms Letters, Capt Herbert Ewart Winn, 2/5th Gurkhas.
83/12/1: Ms Diaries & Ts Transcript, Capt James Digby Wyatt, 2/4th Gloucesters.
01/47/1: Ms Letters, Gnr William Young, 175 Siege Battery, RGA.
Royal Air Force Museum
Department of Research & Information Services (DoRIS)
X003-0380/002, Ms Letters, Air Mechanic 3 John Roscoe, 20 Training Depot Squadron, RAF.
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Articles from the
Inglewood Advertiser
Letter home dated 25 December 1916 from Dvr Alan Gillespie, 2nd Ammunition Sub-Park Transport, AIF, reproduced in the column ‘Tidings of Soldiers’, 20 March 1917.
Letter to his mother dated 27 December 1915, Pte Frank Scholes, 14th Battalion, AIF, reproduced in the column ‘Tidings of Soldiers’, 11 February 1916.