New Zealand Rifle Brigade, Harold Stewart Blackburne
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Sold for: $145.00

Original era. Lot of documents, letters and photographs for Harold Stewart Blackburne 23/73 of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.  In one letter to his cousin he states "Listen you, we are close to the Huns and can hear them jabber away" "I have been very lucky so far in keeping clear of whizz bangs etc. A piece of spent shell hit me in the back a few nights ago" "Last night after turning in for a sleep the Bosches shelled the town with big high explosives." "I don't think I am exaggerating this when I say that our Artillery sends back six for one of the Fritzes perhaps more"  These quotes in a letter from Flanders 23/6/16.Excellent piece of first hand accounting and history in the making.