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A letter sent from the Royal Engineers Record Office, Brompton Barracks to Mary Butler dated 14 December, 1917. The letter requests that if Mary is to receive a correspondence from her husband Charles stating that he is a prisoner of war that she should pass that information on to the Prisoners of War Care Committee at Stevenage Hertfordshire. Sadly Charles had been killed two months prior to Mary receiving this letter. He was killed on 4 October 1917 as he was drilling for water in no man's land near Ieper. Charles was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his services and was buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, 4 kilometres east of Ieper, Belgium.

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