[LETTER RECEIVED FROM LAURA WOLLOCOMBE, INCLUDED IN DIARY:]

Stowford Cottage Sep 17th
Lewdown 1916

My Dear Margaret,
Very many thanks for your kind letter.
He died more from exposure than from his wound, being, unavoidably left lying out for a long time. He told the chaplain: “I could not get out of a shell hole when the Regt was advancing & lay there 2 or 3 days till they retired.”
Does this not hurt to read,- I cannot get it out of my mind at night more especially.
But he died bravely the chaplain says, about 2 days after he was found & taken to the Casualty Clearing Station. His own Regt thought he was killed when he was wounded. His sweet beautiful life on earth is now exchanged into a more glorious one I know.
Love to Dorothea

Ever dear Margaret
Yours Affecately
Laura Wollocombe

[PS] He recd the Holy Communion on the 9th & after that slept quietly, so they thought he might have recovered, but he had gone thro too much in his loneliness.

Letter handwritten on funereal letter-stock (approx. 3/16” black border on 4”x6” paper).