Postcards from Thomas Herbert Wragg, 1916-1917

Place Europe: France
Accession Number RCDIG0001124
Collection number PR01668
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 5
Object type Postcard
Physical description 12 Image/s captured
Maker Wragg, Thomas Herbert
Place made France
Date made 1916-1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Postcards relating to the First World War service of 3706 Private Thomas Herbert Wragg, 26th Battalion.

This collection includes a series of silk postcards sent from Wragg to his mother and brother. In one of the postcards to his mother, Wragg refutes the story that he has been killed in action; however, he would be killed in action the following year at Bullecourt in France on 3 May 1917.

This file contains:

Dual postcards from Thomas Herbert Wragg to his mother, France, 10 June 1916;
Postcard from Thomas Herbert Wragg to his mother, France, 1 September 1916;
Postcard from Thomas Herbert Wragg to his mother, France, 10 December 1916;
Postcard from Thomas Herbert Wragg to his brother, France, 7 February 1917; and
Postcard from Thomas Herbert Wragg to his mother, France, 12 February 1917.