MANUSCRIPT
World War One letters
- Date
- Apr-Jun 1916
- Reference
- MS-Papers-8866-2
- Description
Letters describe Brebner's sea voyage from Egypt to France aboard the S S `Llandovery Castle' and his arrival in France. He describes conditions at the front and gives his impressions of the French civilian population and French countryside. Comments on fighting and gas bombs at Armentieres, and German observation balloons being shot down by Allied planes.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project.
Digitisation details - 27 digitised images
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Brebner, Robert, 1883-1958 : World War One letters
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, Typescripts, Mss and typescripts
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