
Letter home from Egypt during WWI
- Description
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, was sent from Zeitoun Camp in Egypt. He mentions that they may be sent to the Dardanelles soon.
Len and Pat both died at Chunuk Bair in 1915.
Identification
- Object type
- Correspondence
- Archive
- Argyle Family
- Relation
- CA: Argyle Family
- Date
- April 30, 1915
- Digitisation ID
- 2019P_2019-25_026456
- Format
- Paper
- Held In
- Community Archives