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Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken

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SubjectFoakes, Horace
TitleLetter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken
NotesThis letter is from the son of Horace Foakes to his family. It describes how a famous photograph of a group of soldiers (13th BN Royal Fusiliers) was taken after their advance on the Somme on the 7th July 1916.

The photograph has been contributed separately to the archive, along with Horace Foakes memoirs of how he won his military medal.
Item Date22nd August 2002
Creation placeUnknown
File typeImage
Item sourceLeaf
Item mediumPaper
ContentLetter
CataloguerAdmin
CopyrightThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repositoryThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor NameJanet Mercer
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9499