2406: Sapper Herbert Goldwyn Clayton

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posted on 2024-01-16, 17:20 authored by Lest We Forget Project Team

This is part of a letter from Sapper Herbert Goldwyn Clayton of the 88th Field Company Royal Engineers. It gives a very detailed history of where the BEF travelled around Mesopotamia. There is an amusing anecdote regarding corned beef being in a museum 100 years later. Herbert survived WW1 and later opened a sweet shop in Hunslet, Leeds.

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Name of contributor(s)

Dawn Seary (Great Niece)

Subject of the story/individual the object(s) relate to

Sapper Herbert Goldwyn Clayton

Date(s) the event(s) in the story took place

30/07/1917

Location(s) where the event(s) in the story took place

Mesopotamia

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Artefact: part letter dated 30.7.1917

Community Collection Day

City Hall, Bradford (02/02/19)

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Lest We Forget World War One

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