52336: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins

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posted on 2024-02-22, 17:38 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family.

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary.

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.

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Identifier

Creator

Atkins, John C. Grattan

Date

March - August 1915

Date Created

15/03/1915 | 01/08/1914

Temporal Coverage

03/08/1915 | 31/12/1915

Source

Multiple

Medium

Paper

Type

Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Number of Pages

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Sheila Watt

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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Keywords

Great War Archive World War One Letters

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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