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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D258/65/5/1-27
TitleLetters and telegrams to Harry Chandos Pole Gell from friends, officers and soldiers from his batallion giving personal news and accounts of military engagements etc.
Date1915
DescriptionCorrespondents are: Major Charles Bryce, Coldstream Guards, Private Herbert Smith, 3rd battalion, Coldstream Guards, Major Charles Dyce, Lionel [undecipherable], Willy D-L, C [undecipherable], 'the bloody Boy', Buttles, [Captain] Claude Cumberlege, RN, Earl of Dartmouth, Dale, Bill, Fred, W[alter] B[ennet] Wrottesley], H. A[?] Mayall[?].

Includes a verse inscribed 'to Colonel Chandos Pole-Gell and his gallant brigade', beginning 'K's for our King with his men and his horses / K is for Kitchener raiser of forces'

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Extent27 items
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
CopiesA digital copy of this file can be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
TermFirst World War (1914-1918)
Letters (documents)
Military personnel
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