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Letter from Swanny, Sausthorpe Hall to Grandma thanks her for her commiseration on the death of Swanny’s wife “she was the very sunshine of my life for 30 happy years”

6 April 1916

From: 1916 To: 1916

been leaning on her more and more since his health broke down (four operations 1912-1913) she had been nursing wounded for eight months ‘til last Christmas when she had a hysterectomy eldest daughter Marjorie (two children), husband in command of West Kent Regt, killed October 1914 at Neuve Chapelle (married less than six years, four at Quetta, India), son Captain in Rifle Brigade, trench fever invalided home, now on staff of General Smith Dorrien in East Africa Swanny Military Representative on local recruiting tribunals sad beautiful surroundings of Downton (Castle) should be mutilated

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Orlebar, Frederica St.John,
Swan, Charles Arthur,
Swan, Marjorie,
Swan,
Dorrien, Algernon Smith

Spilsby Sausthorpe Hall, DEATH, health, Royal West Kent Regiment, Neuve-Chapelle, India Quetta, Rifle Brigade, trench fever, East Africa, recruiting officer, Downton Castle