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