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Title: Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie
(commanding 1st Battn Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November
4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915

Author: George Brenton Laurie

Editor: Florence Vere-Laurie

Release Date: March 17, 2008 [EBook #24862]

Language: English

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LETTERS

OF

LIEUT.-COLONEL GEORGE BRENTON LAURIE

[Illustration: (signed) George Brenton Laurie]

For Private Circulation

LETTERS

OF

Lt.-Col. GEORGE BRENTON LAURIE

(Commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles)

Dated NOVEMBER 4th, 1914-MARCH 11th, 1915

EDITED BY FLORENCE VERE-LAURIE

_Printed by_
GALE & POLDEN, LTD
Wellington Works, Aldershot
1921

TO HALIBURTON, BLANCHE, AND SYDNEY.

MY DEAR CHILDREN,

I dedicate this little volume to you in memory of your father, who, as
you know, fell on March 12th, 1915, in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
These Letters, which were written to me from France during the first
winter of the World War, do not in any way pretend to literary
attainment; they are just the simple letters of a soldier recording as
a diary the daily doings of his regiment at the front.

Often were they penned under great difficulties, and many a time under
a r