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Bordon, Hampshire

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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From John Brande Trend, 456 Siege Battery, Bordon, 16 July 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/51
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Was busy at the weekend with gun-laying and a church parade; courses on gases and telephony; learning morse code; efforts to obtain an Italian posting again thwarted; peace prospects; reviews of Scontrino's quartet; socialist newspapers

Dates: 16 July 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From John Brande Trend, Bordon, 31 July 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/53
Scope and Contents

Wants to know more about Siegfried [Sassoon]'s letter [to his CO]; Steuart [Wilson]'s wife; the prospects of peace; busy with exercises

Dates: 31 July 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).