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58738: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about life in the trenches

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Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about life in the trenches.

Location probably Neuve Chapelle.


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.

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Raynes, Albert Brainerd

Date

1st December 1914

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01/12/1914

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Leaf

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Paper

Type

Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Number of Pages

5

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Peter Raynes

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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