A young soldier from Oxfordshire, item 19

• October 28, 2018 23:20:54 Stella Watkin

  Telephone NO. REGENT 6151.

  Telegrams "NATIONALLY, CHARLES."                                                  

   oval stamp in red ink INFANTRY RECORD OFFICE NO. 7 DISTRICT

  4-APR 1916
  *WARWICK*

  BRITISH RED CROSS

        - AND -

  ORDER OF ST. JOHN

  ENQUIRY DEPARTMENT

                  FOR

  WOUNDED AND MISSING                                                3rd January, 1916

  18, Carlton House Terrace.

  Mrs. Franklin, 

             West End, 

                     Northmoor,

                           Oxford.

  Dear Madam, 

                                                Pte. P J. Franklin. 10675

                                                     5th Ox & Bucks L.I.

       I think you may care to know that there is in the New End

  Hospital, Hampstead, (Home address: 85, Lealand Road, Stamford Hill)

  a Pte. H.R. Brooks, 17997, C. Company, 5th Ox. & Bucks L.I. who

  took part in the fighting of September 25th.  His account of your

  son's casualty is different from what we last sent you, as he believes

  Pte. Franklin to have been wounded before the retreat began.

       Pte. Brooks says that about 5 a.m. at Bellevaarde Farm, Ypres,

  he saw Pte. Franklin in a German Communication trench on his way

  back to our lines; you son had been wounded in the arm, apparently

  not severely.  Pte. Brooks adds the remark that the nearest dressing

  station was in our fire trench, and he, like Pte. Woolard, say that

  the captured trench was held for nearly three hours before they had

  to retire owing to lack of reinforcements.

       I advise you to write to Pt. Brooks yourself; meanwhile, we 

  are continuing our enquiries elsewhere, as these two accounts do not

  altogether seem consistent.  We are also watching the Prisoners'

  Lists from Germany for you son's name.

                                              Yours truly                   G G Buckler (Mrs.)

                                                                              for SIR LOUIS MALLET

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• October 28, 2018 20:12:17 Stella Watkin

  Telephone NO. REGENT 6151.

  Telegrams "NATIONALLY, CHARLES."

  BRITISH RED CROSS

        - AND -

  ORDER OF ST. JOHN

  ENQUIRY DEPARTMENT

                  FOR

  WOUNDED AND MISSING                                     3rd January, 1916

  18, Carlton House Terrace.

  
  

  Mrs. Franklin, 

             West End, 

                     Northmoor,

                           Oxford.

  Dear Madam, 

                                                Pte. P J. Franklin. 10675

                                                     5th Ox & Bucks L.I.

       I think you may care to know that there is in the New End

  Hospital, Hampstead, (Home address: 85, Lealand Road, Stamford Hill)

  a Pte. H.R. Brooke, 17997, C. Company, 5th Ox. & Bucks L.I. who

  took part in the fighting of September 25th.  His account of your

  son's casualty is different from what we last sent you, as he believes

  Pte. Franklin to have been wounded before the retreat began.

       Pte. Brooks says that about 5 a.m. at Bellevaarde Farm, Ypres,

  he saw Pte. Franklin in a German Communication trench on his way

  back to our lines; you son had been wounded in the arm, apparently

  not severely.  Pte. Brooks adds the remark that the nearest dressing

  station was in our fire trench, and he, like Pte. Woolard, say that

  the captured trench was held for nearly three hours before they had

  to retire owing to lack of reinforcements.

       I advise you to write to Pt. Brooks yourself; meanwhile, we 

  are continuing our enquiries elsewhere, as these two accounts do not

  altogether seem consistent.  We are also watching the Prisoners'

  Lists from Germany for you son's name.

                                              Yours truly                   G G Buckler (Mrs.)

                                                                              for SIR LOUIS MALLET

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  INFANTRY RECORD OFFICE NO. 7 DISTRICT
  4-APR 1916
  *WARWICK*

  
  

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