Letter · 9 Sep 1916
German souvenirs
Harry Norton was killed in action on 15 September 1916, at Flanders. His family were not informed of his death for 5-6 weeks, and continued to write to him. Their letters were returned marked with 'deceased'. Harry wrote to his wife everyday - his letters are very descriptive and personal.
Extracts from this letter
"This morning I had a good look around, & there are lots of dead Huns, half buried. I got two buttons off a Tunic, as Souvenir."
"We had to abandon our first bed. We found a likely looking hole, & started to clean it out, but we found it was already occupied. Poor Beggar. He had been wiped out by a shell. It is wonderful how callous one gets. We only growled because we had put in half an hour of digging for nothing."
