Letter to Flight Lieutenant Harry Wambolt's ParentsJean Thuillier, who had witnessed Harry Wambolt's death in 1917, wrote this letter to Wambolt's parents in 1928.
Earlier in the year, Thuillier had sent the Wambolts some fragments of wreckage from their son's aircraft, and he was now writing to provide them with more details of their son's death. As a 12-year-old boy living in Inchy-en-Artois, France, Thuillier had seen Wambolt's 4 March 1917 combat with German aircraft, his deadly crash, and his subsequent burial by the German military.
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