54998: Letter sent home from France by Joseph Matthews

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posted on 2024-02-23, 18:26 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

Dear Joe,
Drink Up and Have Another
Hope you arrived home in good time for Xmas. Her with programme as promised. Had a glorious day, Day of All Days 'Plenty of Oil'. Everybody well done in the evening. Old Alf and Peter are now upsta

Cannot read a few words marked with ??
Items belong to my father Mr Joseph L. Matthews, from London who left them to me for posterity. He survived the war and lived until May 1962.

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Identifier

5720.txt| GWA_3999_Letter_Home_from_France.txt|

Creator

Matthews, Joseph L

Date

26th December 1918

Date Created

04/08/1914

Temporal Coverage

26/03/1919

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Leaf

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Text: Transcription

Type

Letter

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Elizabeth Brewerton

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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Great War Archive World War One Letters

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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