Letter from and membership card belonging to Sergeant R. W. Readhead
Item
Title
Letter from and membership card belonging to Sergeant R. W. Readhead
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Identifier
9425.cpd
Creator
Readhead, Ralph William
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Abstract
Letter from Sergeant Ralph William Readhead to his wife, written while he was in hospital recovering from a bullet wound to the arm. The letter is accompanied by a handwritten transcript, and a label saying that Readhead was 'injured on the Somme' (although the battle usually known by that name did not occur until the following year), and Readhead's membership card for The Northumberland Fusiliers' South African Volunteers' Association. Part of a collection relating to Ralph William Readhead of the 4th East Yorks.
Date
26th May 1915
Date Created
1917-11-01
Temporal Coverage
1917-11-30
Source
Multiple
Medium
Mixed
Type
Multiple
number of pages
3
Contributor
Alun Edwards
Meriel Patrick (Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull submissions day 31st May 2008)
Sandra Cane
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford