68689: Letter: To Mrs Garnett
Creators: name: Project Team, First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Nancy Garnett was a friend and neighbour of Vera Brittain in Buxton. When Nancy's brother Jerry died at Gallipoli, he was buried at Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Vera, who was stationed nearby as a VAD, visited his grave and wrote to the parents a four page letter of condolence. She describes the location, and apologies for such a lengthy letter but in the absence of being able to visit her own fiance's grave (Roland Leighton) she knows how grateful she is when others can visit it and tell her about it. She hopes that her letter brings them comfort.This letter was discovered through a public collection event hosted by Age Exchange UK and kindly passed onto the First World War Poetry Digital Archive. |File descriptions(s):
Nancy Garnett was a friend and neighbor of Vera Brittain's in Buxton. When Nancy's brother Jerry died in Gallipoli, he was buried at Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Vera, who was stationed nearby as a VAD, visited his grave and wrote to the parents a four page letter of condolence. She describes the location, and apologies for such a lengthy letter but in the absence of being able to visit her own fiance's grave (Roland Leighton) she knows how grateful she is when others can visit it and tell her about it. She hopes that her letter brings them comfort.This letter was discovered through a public collection event hosted by Age Exchange UK and kindly passed onto the First World War Poetry Digital Archive.<br>Nancy Garnett was a friend and neighbour of Vera Brittain in Buxton. When Nancy's brother Jerry died at Gallipoli, he was buried at Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Vera, who was stationed nearby as a VAD, visited his grave and wrote to the parents a four page letter of condolence. She describes the location, and apologies for such a lengthy letter but in the absence of being able to visit her own fiance's grave (Roland Leighton) she knows how grateful she is when others can visit it and tell her about it. She hopes that her letter brings them comfort.This letter was discovered through a public collection event hosted by Age Exchange UK and kindly passed onto the First World War Poetry Digital Archive.<br>Nancy Garnett was a friend and neighbour of Vera Brittain in Buxton. When Nancy's brother Jerry died at Gallipoli, he was buried at Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. Vera, who was stationed nearby as a VAD, visited his grave and wrote to the parents a four page letter of condolence. She describes the location, and apologies for such a lengthy letter but in the absence of being able to visit her own fiance's grave (Roland Leighton) she knows how grateful she is when others can visit it and tell her about it. She hopes that her letter brings them comfort.This letter was discovered through a public collection event hosted by Age Exchange UK and kindly passed on to the First World War Poetry Digital Archive.