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Abraham Edgar Thresh letter to Margaret Bottomley manuscript

 Collection — Shared_box 7472, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-2019-008
Summary

Handwritten letter from British Army lieutenant Abraham Edgar Thresh, East Lancashire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, to his first cousin Margaret Bottomley, of Rockville, Connecticut. Thresh gives recounts the Clonbanin ambush, in which a British Army convey came under attack by Irish Republican Army forces, wounding Thresh and killing two British officers. Thresh's correspondent is Margaret Bottomley (1898-1981), the daughter of his maternal uncle Charles S. Bottomley.

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Open for research.

Dates: 1921 March 12