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Letter to G.H. Prynne, father of
E
DGAR
P
RYNNE
(at SES 1906-1909), killed in action during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, from Chaplain
C.S. Woodward, letter dated 5 October 1916.
“His body lies where he fell facing the enemy in open country now pitted with shell holes, but in a spot which will in a comparatively short time,
regain its natural beauty”
Copy of the letter from Edgar Prynne’s Commanding
Officer to his father dated 29 September 1916.
ST. EDWARD’S
OXFORD