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Thomas Rees England - Letters written to his family
- Date
- 1899, 1903, 1914-1915
- By
- Wanganui Collegiate School
- Reference
- MS-Papers-11439-1
- Description
Contains letter written to his sister Annie from Wanganui Collegiate School, Oct 1899 together with a school report for 2nd term, 1899 and letters written to his family while on active service during World War One, 13 November 1914-25 Aug 1915.
Thomas England, a signaller in the Auckland Infantry Regiment, embarked with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force bound for Egypt on 16 October 1914 aboard HMNZT 12 (Waimana). He embarked for Gallipoli on 12 April 1915 and saw action there until he was hospitalised on 27 Jul 1915. England was diagnosed as suffering from rheumatism and neurasthenia and was shipped back to New Zealand from England on 16 December 1915. He was discharged from the Army on 5 March 1916.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Mss & printed material
Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project.
Digitisation details - 84 digitised images. Page of letter 2/12/1914 not included with donation.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- England family : Papers
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, Mss & printed material
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