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61130: John Eadie and David Abrahamson

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Letter to daughter from John Eadie
Residue of Naval Assets (John Eadie)
Leith School Board, two certificates for David Abrahamson
Postcard, lowestoft
Patriotic card 'To Lottie from Dadda'
Photo x 2 John Eadie

Photo group. the Eadie family:
Sophia, holding book
Agnes, oldest child
Charlotte, 2nd daughter
Johnny, son referred to in letter

My grandfather John Eadie was lost on 2nd April 1916 when his minesweeper HMS Commandant struck a mine at Lowestoft.
The letter he sent to my mother was probably written the Christmas before he died. He refers to Zeppelins and he died the day they attacked Leith.

He was a Leith man who married a Newhaven woman and lived in Newhaven at the time he died. The Family wrote letters to say they were OK, but he had died the same day.

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Subject

Eadie, John and Abrahamson, David

Date

1914 - 1916

Date Created

01/08/1914

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1916

Source

Multiple

Medium

Paper

Type

Collection

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Number of Pages

13

Contributor

Everett Sharp | Everett Sharp | Sophia Abrahamsen

Submission Event

Edinburgh Library Submission Day, 4th June 2008

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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