Edward Brittain in Italy

from Letter from Edward Brittain to Vera Brittain, 22 Dec. 1917, page 387:

The gramphone returned last night with the spare kit from the base: great joy - Sweet Early Violets and Down in the Forest Again. I wonder how long it will be before we have to dump it again.
cite as

Letter from Edward Brittain to Vera Brittain, 22 Dec. 1917. In A. G. Bishop and Mark Bostridge (ed.), Letters from a lost generation : First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends - Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow (:London, 1999), p. 387. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1400742984581 accessed: 11 December, 2024

location of experience: Italy

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Edward Brittain
captain, Officer (armed forces)
1895-1918

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Down in the forest again
Sweet early violets
written by Louis F. Sherrington

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Notes

Edward was serving with the 11th Sherwood Foresters on the Italian Front.


Originally submitted by hgb3 on Thu, 22 May 2014 08:16:24 +0100