posted on 2024-02-23, 22:45authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
Card from the trenches saying that coming home for leave the following week.
Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
History
Identifier
5878.jpg|
GWA_4181_15_02_15.jpg|
Creator
Raynes, Albert Brainerd
Date
15th February 1915
Date Created
15/02/1915
Source
Postcard
Medium
Card
Type
Postcard
Contributor
Richard Marshall | Professor E P Raynes
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor