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Category: Grief
Iliff (this catalogue): Loss of RAF sweetheart. July 1918.
Category: Grief
J.B. Maclean (GS) Letter 20, 20.9.17.
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Category: Grief
Sidonie Goossens (Tape 810) Father's intense grief on death of his son Adolph.
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See Museum Section: Domestic Front: 31 for a mourning dress and accessories.
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L.F. Rooke (GS) for his mother's letters reflecting her state of mind re loss of her husband and 2 sons and injury to third.
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E. Speed (AFE): Letter 28, 18.11.17, from his aunt (in South Africa) to his mother after Speed's death, full of pain of bereavement: "What an awful war! It is terrifying the number of bereaved homes. Here in the [Orange] Free State some families have lost two and three and even more of their menfolk, I think it awful when....some are only 18 years old." "This German East African campaign is nearly finished now. Ernest was one of the heroes who helped to win it!!!"
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Mrs. M. Foster (DF Recollections) death of brother and husband.
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W.D. Churchill (DF). Sermons. National expression of grief in a Day of Prayer 6.1.18. Sermon 30.12.17.
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M.F.T. Baines (GS) - 2 letters from the N.O.K. of men in his battery who have been killed. One dated 14.11.17, "There is some comfort in knowing that he was respected and that he did his duty, but not withstanding it was a great shock". Another dated 24.11.17 from a Vicar for a parishioner: "She is greatly distressed as also are her 4 little children".
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Category: Grief
H.Livingston (GS) Letter from his wife dated 4.6.17 - She has been greatly upset by the death of a friend's husband - "I am longing for you and dare not imagine what [she] will feel like. After all their plans for the future she has nothing to look forward to excepting to bring up their children".
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Erskine papers (GS) Letters of Granny Erskine to her granddaughter Griselda at the loss of Griselda's brother, David (April/May 1915).
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E.Lethem (DF) Diary 7.11.17. Brother K.I.A. "I cannot think of John as finished. There must be something beyond infinitely better than this ... God help me to help them all". (His family) Family tried to get other son's orders for France rescinded (T.Lethem G.S.). See early entries for Jan.1918 Day of National Intercession and Thanksgiving (Jan.1918) "None of us felt we could stand a war service so soon after John's death".
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