Sapper Herbert Goldwyn Clayton

Item

Title

Sapper Herbert Goldwyn Clayton

Who?

Sapper Herbert Goldwyn Clayton

Item(s)

Artefact: part letter dated 30.7.1917

Story

This is part of a letter from Sapper Herbert Goldwyn Clayton of the 88th Field Company Royal Engineers. It gives a very detailed history of where the BEF travelled around Mesopotamia. There is an amusing anecdote regarding corned beef being in a museum 100 years later. Herbert survived WW1 and later opened a sweet shop in Hunslet, Leeds.

When?

30/07/1917

Where?

Mesopotamia

Contributor

Dawn Seary (Great Niece)

Collection Day

City Hall, Bradford (02/02/2019)

This item was submitted on February 28, 2019