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Len Shaw
Title
Letter
Object type Letters home/wars
Classification: NM3.12829
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English: Letter from 2nd Lieutenant Leonard James Shaw (7-1323 2nd Auckland Infantry Battalion), Aotearoa Club, Codford, UK, 11-9-1916 to his niece Jessie Osborne, Opuatia (near Mercer). Letter written on New Zealand War Contingent Association letterhead.
Date 30s
date QS:P571,+30-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
ep 2002; 12 Sep 2002; World War 1, 1914-18-wars; 11 Sep 1916
Dimensions notes: 270 mm x 179 mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
2002.82.3
Place of creation Codford
Credit line Gift of the family of the late Jessie Pearson (née Osborne), niece of the late Leonard James Shaw
Notes letter from 2nd Lieutenant Leonard James Shaw (7-1323 2nd Auckland Infantry Battalion), Aotearoa Club, Codford, UK, 11-9-1916 to his niece Jessie Osborne, Opuatia (near Mercer). Letter written on New Zealand War Contingent Association letterhead. Letter refers to recent holiday - visits to Scotland, Museums, Zoo etc., and visit to camp to see Uncle Leslie - "Yesterday I went to a camp about 30 miles away to try and find Uncle Leslie. I did not think that I would have very much show, but after a good hunt I did find him. He is looking very well. I think that I will be going to that camp in about two weeks, and, if so, we may get together. wouldn't that be nice. Uncle Leslie has been in England a little over two weeks. All these camps are built in quiet places, but there are small towns and villages close, which are often very interesting. Salisbury is the nearest town to here, and is about half way between the camp and the one Uncle Leslie is at." GENERAL NOTES- While serving overseas during WW1 Len Shaw (2nd Lieutenant Leonard James Shaw, 7-1323, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment) of Opuatia near Mercer, corresponded with his niece Jessie Osborne (then aged 12-14 years). Among the letters she received is a letter enclosing a pressed poppy he had picked in the front-line trenches. Len Shaw was killed in action France on 29.9.1918. His brother Leslie Shaw wrote home describing the circumstances of his brother's death.
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