Letter from Walter Harold Mobbs to Mr Cottnell, 19 October 1916

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number AWM2017.6.60
Collection number PR82/008
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type Item
Item count 1
Object type Letter, Photograph
Physical description 4 Image/s captured
Maker Mobbs, Walter Harold
Place made United Kingdom: England, Bedfordshire, Bedford
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

Letter from Walter Harold Mobbs to Mr Cottnell, Howbury Hall, Bedford, 19 October 1916. In the letter Mobbs talks about friends involved in the war, speaks of his injury, hospital care and the vote on conscription. Attached to the letter is a photograph taken in front of Howbury Hall of recovering soldiers with four nurses. Mobbs went on to marry Eliza Maketon, a nurse at Howbury Hall.