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54707: John B Nicholson's Letter Home

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Support Trenches,
FLANDERS,
July 9th 1915.


My Dear Pater,
Last night we moved up here from the reserve trenches in which we'd been for five days. We're in support t


Letter describes daily life in the trenches. Starts with the realities of modern warfare and how the differ from the romantic vision, soldier's kit, entering trenches, relieving a trench, sentry duty, stand-to, repairing trenches, censored material, no-man's land, an amusing story of a Highlander out on patrol. Final note: "A few days later, in the earliest hours of July 13th, as he was reinforcing the parapet of a trench, John was shot through the heart by a German sniper. He died immediately and his body joined the grim parade in the military cemetery of Richebourg St.Vaast."

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Identifier

5682.txt| GWA_3936_John_B_Nicholson_s_Letter_Home.txt|

Creator

Nicholson, John B.

Date

9th July 1915

Date Created

01/01/1915

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1915

Source

Unknown

Medium

Text: Transcription

Type

Letter

Contributor

Stuart Lee | Thomas Nicholson

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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