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Letter of sympathy to Mr John Henderson
Unknown, 1915, Letter
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Letter of sympathy to Mr John Henderson
Letter of sympathy to Mr John Henderson
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Title
Letter of sympathy to Mr John Henderson
Description
Letter of sympathy sent from John Cairns, manager of St Cuthbert's Co-operative to John Henderson on intimation of death in active service of Bill's Great Uncle Alexander Henderson who died aged 25 on 12th October 1915.
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Unknown
Date
1915
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8.4 x 20.3 cm
Type
Letter
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Reproduced by kind permission of William J. Hall
The photographs in this exhibition were kindly loaned to us by Bill Hall for our digital collections. It contains images dating from the early 1900s to the 1980s, taken across Scotland.
Brought up in Edinburgh he has collected many family photographs and items covering his mother's early years and his own boyhood.
Letter of sympathy sent from John Cairns, manager of St Cuthbert's Co-operative to John Henderson on intimation of death in active service of Bill's Great Uncle Alexander Henderson who died aged 25 on 12th October 1915.
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